{"id":673782,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/673782/?format=json","text_counter":26,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Sen. Billow","speaker_title":"","speaker":{"id":260,"legal_name":"Billow Adan Kerrow","slug":"billow-kerrow"},"content":"Mr. Speaker, Sir, this is a very important matter. We do not have a good record as a nation and this happened even when our distinguished Senator for Bungoma was a Minister for Foreign Affairs. We do not have a record of caring for Kenyans who are in countries that have problems. We are always the last country and we do not respond as fast and as efficiently as other countries do. I know of people who have been injured and are in hospitals in Kampala. When they were crossing the border by bus, the South Sudanese guys opened fire and several of them were injured. Those people are now held in hospitals in another country. It is important that the Foreign Ministry has a desk where the relatives and friends of those people who are working in that country can get information and even give their names. There has to be a contingency plan for evacuation in a country when there is a crisis like this one. The Government must tell us whether there is such a plan and where can Kenyans go and register their concerns regarding their people who are in such countries, particularly South Sudan."}