{"id":707451,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/707451/?format=json","text_counter":173,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. Shidiye","speaker_title":"","speaker":{"id":2070,"legal_name":"Mohamed Muktar Shidiye","slug":"mohamed-muktar-shidiye"},"content":"Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. People in northern Kenya have suffered and we continue to suffer because we host refugees. It is a huge burden. Nobody has appreciated us. Kenyans in northern Kenya are looked down upon. When some people see me, they think I am a refugee. Those people are Somali nationals and I am a Kenyan Somali. There are also Djibouti Somalis and Ethiopian Somalis. The Government of Kenya must provide a way of helping our people out of this bottom neck. You cannot host refugees for more than 25 years and fail to have a policy framework for safeguarding the Kenyans who host these refugees. With those few remarks, I support and thank you for being generous."}