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    "id": 835193,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wako",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Amos Sitswila Wako",
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    "content": "I recall that one of my nephews got married to a Somali. I have two nephews; one of them looked ordinary like us, while the other one looked like a Somali. They both applied for a US Visa, and the one whom America profiled to be a terrorist was denied the visa. We were not given any reason for the denial, but we all know it is because of the way he looked. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we saw the way terrorism was organised, and it kept on improving to the extent where they were using people of the territory or the country where terrorism activities were going on. When I was the Attorney-General, I recall that the first people whom I tried and prosecuted for terrorism were not those who had been profiled to be terrorists; they were those who were very ordinary, and one or two of them had names and the looks of my people of Busia or Luhya land. What had happened is that they had been lured to go to those areas where they were radicalised. Therefore, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, to the extent that this Bill is focusing on the issue of countering radicalisation, I give it a tick, because most of our youth have been taken away and radicalised outside this country. Very few youth are radicalised within the country. Why is it so easy to lure them to those countries? This is where I would appeal to the Government and all of us to address those issues which cause the youth of this country to be easily lured to go outside for radicalisation. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, from the stories we have heard from those radicalized youth who have come back, they are lured very easily when they are told that they will go to those countries for further education, with all costs paid for. Of course, when they got there, it was not the type of education that they were anticipating. How were they easily lured? They are easily lured because of unemployment amongst the youth of this country. They were given great promises of employment in those other countries. I am sure that most families must have felt that if their youth go to those countries and are employed, they will assist them back home. Of course when they got there, it was anything other than being employed, which is the reason they went there in the first place. Therefore, these are some of the issues that must be addressed. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, when these youth were lured, some of their families supported them under misrepresentation that they were going for further studies. Even those families that knew that they may be going for radicalisation and would not support them, they were fearful of making reports to the law enforcement agencies. This is because they feared that if they made those reports, they would be arrested, dealt with by the law enforcement agencies and, in fact, that their other children may even be shot dead. We have heard stories; and the Senator for Mombasa County has just referred to the extrajudicial killings among the youth in Mombasa because of this so-called The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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