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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Oyugi",
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        "legal_name": "Augostinho Neto Oyugi",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Wafula and Hon. Deputy Speaker, for coming to my rescue. I would like to request that the Members listen to me so that they understand the gist of this Bill. Kenya has been hosting refugees for a long time. It is important for Kenya to use the knowledge and experience it has in Daadab and Kakuma Refugee Camps to set the pace for refugee issues across the world. We have seen that migration issues have not been very well received in the past two or three years. We have seen various frontiers chasing away refugees. We have also seen the international community chasing away refugees against the international principles of non-involvement. In fact, it has not been very fair for them to ask Kenya to constantly host refugees while on the other hand the international community has been chasing away refugees. That is why Kenya needs to use its example to set the stage and show the world what good refugee practice is because we have been able to coexist with refugees for the past 30 or so years. I am moving the new Refugee Bill to repeal the Refugee Act, 2006. The reason we are repealing the Refugee Act, 2006 is because it was responding to an emergency scenario. Right now, we have what is called in refugee parlance “a protracted refugee scenario”. When the refugees were leaving Somalia in the 1980s, no one thought that Somalia would be unstable for well over 30 years. To that extent, the law that we brought in place was managing refugees in an emergency scenario. That is why the law was responding to an incumbent policy. An incumbent policy is, therefore, not possible to sustain right now because for 30 years the refugees have been living in Kenya, thereby seeping into the city and getting out of the camps. The law that we passed does not respond to that. The third thing is that there has been refugee insecurity concern. People think that refugees are equal to insecurity. There are people in Dadaab and Kakuma who are living in penury; people who are living in very vulnerable conditions; women and children who have no 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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