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    "id": 707461,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Onyura",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Michael Aringo Onyura",
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    "content": "I will be brief. I rise to support the Bill, which is timely and will be a very useful law. I thank Hon. Neto and his colleagues for a job well done. This Bill is quite progressive compared to what existed before. It is modernising what was there before and filling in the gaps that lacked in the Act that it seeks to repeal. I approach this Bill from the point of view that these are human beings. The refugees are human beings like any one of us. Therefore, all the human rights that apply to any human being, including ourselves, should apply to refugees. It is not out of choice that these people are refugees, but out of the circumstances that they find themselves, which are awkward and depressing. I also look at this from the point of view that this can happen to anybody. We might be very comfortable here today. Who knows, in another five or ten years, things might change. It nearly happened to us in 2017. Looking back, during the dictatorial time of one-party state, a number of Kenyans fled this country and were accommodated in other countries. So, we should look at it and say: “Let us treat anybody who flees into our country the way we would wish to be treated, if this happened to us and we went to other people’s country.” The Bill is comprehensive and I know it will serve the purpose. I am very happy with the structures that have been put in place to handle the various aspects like the commission, the secretariat and the refugee trust fund. This will go a long way in addressing issues in this area. 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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