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    "id": 707372,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/707372/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Mohamed Diriye",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Diriye Abdullahi Mohamed",
        "slug": "diriye-abdullahi-mohamed"
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    "content": "Region, which our Kenyan defence forces have played a very important role in pacifying. Therefore, we need to laud our efforts and the efforts of our gallant soldiers in the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) for doing such wonderful work in compliance with international law. We have not heard our KDF being involved in rape, persecution or torture of the local community in Somalia. So, this is very important. That is what has made it possible for the refugees to be repatriated. As we repatriate refugees, we must also take care of the interests of the host community. What is going to happen when we repatriate those refugees? There are many Kenyans who are registered as refugees. There is double-registration. They cannot get Kenyan identity cards and they are stateless. You are repatriating the refugees. Are they also going to go back with the Somalis from Somalia or what is going to happen to them? That is a very serious concern. Similarly, we are being told there are many refugees from Somalia who have registered as Kenyans. So, there is a lot of mix up. There are Kenyans who have registered as refugees, but there are also refugees from Somalia who have registered as Kenyans. This needs to be cleaned up so that, at the end of the day, when we repatriate the refugees, we will have our Kenyan citizens getting their identity documents. The Somali refugees will then be removed from our database and they will return the Kenyan identity documents. About security concerns, I think refugees have been labelled as contributing to our insecurity; as aiding terrorists or being terrorists. I think this is too unfair to refugees. The refugees are people running away from persecution, war and from a very deep founded fear that they could not stay in their country. Nobody likes leaving his country. Nobody can just flee his country and get displaced into another country. Your homeland is very sweet. Nobody will leave his country just to go to another country and to go to the very dehumanising refugee camps. So, these guys are running from their country because there is real fear. That is why they run away. We hope that it is being stabilised now. Therefore, they are not terrorists. We cannot label refugees as terrorists. This is too unfair. They are human beings. They have the rights and the dignity. So, it is just too unfair to label refugees as terrorists. Sometime we have been too harsh on them. Remember these people are just trying to live decently and look for very good lives and livelihoods for their children and dependents. They just want to live life like us. Whenever something happens, we---"
}