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    "id": 824452,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/824452/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nairobi CWR, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Esther Passaris",
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        "legal_name": "Esther Passaris",
        "slug": "esther-passaris"
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    "content": "We had a case in Kamukunji, Nairobi County, recently. Somebody in the social media reported about a young boy who was on the streets without legs begging. He wanted us to help him. I sent my team to find him. When we found him, we went to her house in the slums. We met with the people who were housing him. He was being used to beg. It did not come to our attention at that time that this boy was trafficked from Tanzania. We placed him with children welfare services. The woman who housed him said that she was the mother but the children welfare services took him for a Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA) test with the woman and the test was negative. She is currently at Lang’ata Women’s Prison. That made me aware of the fact that we really need good relationships with our neighbours. When you have a situation like that, then we need cooperation among the countries. We need to synchronise our laws on trafficking. It is obvious that quite a number of citizens bring disabled children to Nairobi and use them to beg. Those children are not given parental care. They are rented out in spite of their disability. That can be solved if we have Bills ratified by the East African Community member states. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
}