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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Anyango",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Dalmas Anyango Otieno",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. This is a very important Bill and, in fact, it is overdue. I would like to thank the Leader of the Majority Party for speeding it up for consideration. I want to support this Bill by first saying that Kenyans are our responsibility. The good, the bad and the ugly of Kenyans is our responsibility. All those Kenyans are our duty. It is up to us to make them good citizens, if they turn out to be bad citizens. As of now, Kenyans are going all over the world. You get shocked when you land in a small country, say an island in the Caribbean and you find Kenyans there. We are going to have to encourage Kenyans to go all over the world to seek whatever opportunities are available there. However, they remain our responsibility. We have a new Constitution which has privileges and rights that may not be available in so many other countries. It is really the choice of the criminal who has been jailed in another country, particularly those who have been jailed for life, or are due to be hanged in those countries according to the different laws that may exist, and that may be required where we have a bilateral exchange programme to bring Kenyans back home. We need to give examples to our people. We need, for instance, to tell our people: “Your mother was selling cocaine in Thailand and she was arrested. She was going to be hanged in Thailand, but we have negotiated and she has come back home. Please, be aware that anybody you know who is selling drugs anywhere in the world is committing a crime; be far away from such a person.” However, if terrible criminals, who are products of our own cultural systems and socio-economic challenges are jailed in, say, China and we do not get to see or hear from them, what lessons do they give us to help us strengthen our correctional services, which The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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