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    "id": 707503,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. M.D. Duale",
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        "legal_name": "Mohamed Dahir Duale",
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    "content": "Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me the opportunity. I represent Dadaab Constituency which is currently hosting refugees and I have a lot of interest in this Bill. From the outset, I fully support the Bill. Our country Kenya has hosted refugees for the last 25 years, if not more. What Kenya has given to the refugees is far greater than what has been given by the international community in terms of shelter, food, land, peace and everything that we have provided. It is far bigger than the contribution of the entire international humanitarian contribution. I know refugees get rations, but they do not get firewood. They get water from our land. They get shelter materials from our land. They have security and they can move freely in addition to having thousands of refugees in the camps. We also have urban refugees in our major towns in Kenya. So, our contribution has been very great. Further, this Bill will address some of the legislative gaps that we have in the current law. I fully support. Secondly, the host community, which I represent, has faced a lot of challenges. Even as the Government plans to close refugee camps, it is very important that Dadaab Refugee Camp is unpacked because we have non-Somali refugees who will not be taken to Somalia. We also have refugees who are awaiting resettlement to third countries. We have thousands of Kenyans who have been captured in the refugee database. I cannot finish, but I want to say that even as we think of moving the refugees to Somalia, it should be voluntary. We must unpack and remove all the Kenyans in the refugee database, so that as we move them to Somalia, the Kenyans are freed. If a refugee camp was in Kiambu, which is the richest county in Kenya, many Kenyans would have gone to look for the same services. People went into refugee camps to look for services due to poverty around them. With those few remarks, I support the Bill."
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