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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Chanzu",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Yusuf Kifuma Chanzu",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for the opportunity to support this Bill. The way the world is going, it is opening up all the time such that we cannot live like in the past. If something has happened, like we ended up having refugees, whether they came here because of the country being friendly or the idea of neighbourliness, it comes a time when these things have to be formalised. I have seen a very interesting case at Kenyatta University where the first President allowed people to settle there. Now it has become a problem because people who were born there now have grandchildren. The main reason I support this is there must be orderliness. It must be an issue that must be planned for and predictable, now that we are part of the global village and the problems affecting other countries may also affect us or our people. Just like what my colleagues have said, we have also had people who go out to seek asylum, which I hope will not happen in this country now that we got a new Constitution. There is a lot of openness and the courts are working – although sometimes not very well. I believe that the fact that we are part of the international community and within the region we have got neighbours and we happen to have accommodated people from those countries, dealing with their situation must be done on humanitarian grounds. We cannot just throw people out. The most important thing is that the Committee has gone through this and has given some guidelines on the basis of which this should be done. It cannot be open-ended, even on the issue of timeliness. On the other hand, when you allow a situation to continue, you either naturalise it or make it permanent. There must be caution. There must be a framework on the basis of which this is done. This law is intended to do that which is very important."
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