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    "id": 707356,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Oyugi",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 444,
        "legal_name": "Augostinho Neto Oyugi",
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    "content": "Hon. Deputy Speaker, Clause 9 of this Bill speaks to the establishment of the Secretariat of Refugee Affairs. It is going to assist the Legibility Committee and work in conjunction with the UN Office for refugees. It will also receive and deal with application of refugee status among other things. We have also established the Secretariat for Refugee Affairs which is supposed to be handling all the operations and protection aspects of refugees. Presently, the people handling protection issues of refugees have been the officers of the UNHCR with a bit of support from the Government of Kenya. We are saying that the UNHCR is supposed to help Kenya as a corporate partner. However, refugee protection should be a Kenyan issue with a bit of support from the UNHCR. In fact, the moment you leave an external body to solely run the issue of refugees, there will be a problem. That is why we are establishing a proper Secretariat that will ensure that it works in conjunction with the UNHCR and the KNCHR to ensure that all issues of refugees are put under one body. Presently in Kenya, if you asked how many refugees exist or how many refuges are in Kenya, no one might have the exact number simply because there have been several points of entry into this country. Every place has been a refugee entry point. The only registration points have been in Dadaab, Kakuma as well as the Office of UNHCR in Nairobi. In Clause 13, Part III of this Bill, we propose to establish an application regime that will be managed by authorised officers. “Authorised officers” in the Bill will include the Director for Refugee Affairs, a refugee officer, a settlement officer or an immigration officer. The importance of that provision in this Bill is that presently, refugees enter Kenya from anywhere but the registration points have been centralised to only three places. If we decentralise authorised officers including immigration officers so that they register refugees, it will be possible to trace all issues of refugees. 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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