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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Keynan",
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        "legal_name": "Adan Wehliye Keynan",
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    "content": "Forces and getting entangled in the Somalia affairs is not going to be accepted. It is going to be counterproductive. The other thing that has been going on in the name of the Somalia crisis is ethnic communities with similar features like Somalia people have been profiled. Is it a crime to do business? Under the Constitution, is it a crime? Does one choose to be a refugee? Being a refugee is a disaster. What we should do as a responsible State is to use internationally accepted organizations like the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) to register and validate the stay of refugees in Kenya and allow them the necessary decorum that is due to any human being regardless of their status. Because of corruption and other intrigues, refugees right now are not comfortable to register. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I know that Daadab, which is part of your constituency, if you see where we have the immigration post, it is very far from the border. Officially, our border is closed. However, I can tell you that, that is not the issue. That is why I want to thank the Members of Parliament who took a lot of time to travel all the way to Daadab. For them, that was an eye opener because they have only heard about northern Kenya. On our way back, we had to detour and go back to Voi to witness some of the things that were happening. I agree with one of our colleagues who said that the sittings of Parliament once in a while, must take place rotationally so that we can be familiar with every part of the Republic of Kenya. That is the only way you can appreciate me and I appreciate you. The dynamics are totally different. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the issue of ethnic profiling is a painful event. We do recall that immediately after Independence, there are issues that happened which are regrettable. Those issues were legislated and that is history. The advent of multi- partyism brought in the repealing of the District Contentious Act, the Emergency Laws. The emergency law, like my brother here Asman Kamama who has served as an administrator in northern Kenya knows, is that the people of that region carried a card. You remember the Somalia screening which was totally illegal. You remember the killings. You remember those laws. All those laws were meant to discriminate against the people Kenya. In this modern era, any public officer or administrator who relishes the illegal events of the past and tries to push us to a corner should remember the same will not be accepted. We want everyone to be allowed to carry out legitimate business in any part of the Republic of Kenya. When Kenyans excel in business, it should be something to be proud of by every Kenyan because you create job opportunities and contribute to the per capita income and in essence, you become a proud product of the Republic of Kenya. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, one thing we must note is that, this document that we have adopted requires a lot of resources. Where will the resources come from? The resources will come through viable and legally accepted business. That should not be criminalized. The other thing that must be put on record is that, can a whole community be criminals? In law, criminal responsibility is individual; it is not collective. That is why I completely disagree with a document that I saw with the rubber stamp of the International Criminal Court (ICC) which talks about a particular community from central Kenya. That is unacceptable because it is individuals from that community if anything, who will have done a crime. So, this issue of collectively branding a group as criminals must not be part of our legacy. Any individual or organization that"
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