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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Munene",
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        "legal_name": "Mary Wambui Munene",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to say something about refugees. Kenyans are good people. They welcome everybody who comes their way. However, we also get problems because when refugees come here, they do many things. They use some people to buy property. If you go to Eastleigh or Zimmerman, you will find so many refugees and yet the Government seems not to be aware of what is happening. I am asking our Government to come up with the right law. We must respect human rights. We must respect refugees because we do not know about tomorrow. As we host them, the Government must have structures in place so that we know how many refugees are in this country. We cannot operate in a way that would expose us to criminals like it happened during the Westgate incident. The refugees have stayed here for a long time. You know that when a visitor comes to your place, they are normally there for a few days and then they go away. Our refugees have been here with us for the last 25 years and, indeed, they have presented us with a lot of problems. We know we like people. We are supposed to have an international law. As my colleague, Wamalwa said, the international community has left Kenya with a burden of feeding those refugees. When we say they should go back home it is because we have helped to bring peace in their home country. They do not want to go back and all they can tell us are unfavourable words. They are telling us that it is not right for us to do what we are doing. Even now, we have many foreigners in our country who come to work here. It is good to have partners, but they are not supposed to enjoy the same rights as the citizens. If you go to River Road, you will find many shops which have been opened by Chinese. Our people are not getting business. It is our economy that suffers because our people are not doing these jobs. When they get money, they take it back to their countries. It is not good for us to make our people suffer because we are welcoming refugees and other people into this country."
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