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"content": "As a country, we need to suspend labour export and audit the number of our children who have signed up for jobs with various agents. Who are these agents? Sometimes when these issues come up, we see agents calling press conferences, saying that they follow Kenyan and the Middle East labour laws. We need to protect our people. I have always indicated that the future of Kenya is in the human resource. A total of 300 nurses were needed to go to work in the United Kingdom (UK), but the problem was English. However, that is neither here nor there. We need to agree that the next frontier of Kenya is not oil, tea or coffee, but young, energetic, well-learned and educated people, who are willing to work across the globe. Some of these young people are working in the Middle East countries. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, with the industrious nature of Sen. Sakaja, the Chairperson of this Committee, I also propose that we should have active rescue centres. When you talk of deportation centers, as a lawyer, I would tell you it is a total ball game all together. What do our embassies in those countries do? Do they have employees or attachés to act as rescue centres? When Honduras tried to close their borders, you could see the American Government had rescue centres to take care of their citizens. They were fed, clothed and conducted COVID-19 tests on them. I think we need to agree that the embassies should ensure that we have rescue centres. I think Sen. Sakaja, who is the next Governor of Nairobi City County, should be very insistent on having rescue centres. As Sen. Faki said, these rescue centres should be able to provide clothes, medication, water, psychosocial support and counseling. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, another unrelated issue is investments, where we need to also protect the diaspora community. These are „hustlers‟ working as maids or house servants and drivers. This is what we call bottom-up. When we talk of bottom-up, it is that we must ensure that we work hard on it. Just the way we are protecting mamambogas and boda boda riders, we must protect those individuals in those places. That is why I was saying the issue of counseling is important. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Labour must ensure they provide counseling to distraught families. As a family, you have sent your child to the Middle East and before you know it, you are told that your child died. The body is then brought through the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA); and you can imagine the pain. These are some of the things that will form the core of the decisions of the next government of the „hustler nation.‟ You remember the Ethiopian Airlines plane crash, unfortunately, claimed many lives. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs provided psychosocial support to the families of the victims. Why are we not doing the same with the families that have lost their loved ones abroad? Your child flew out while well, but is brought back in a casket at JKIA, and no one tells you anything. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the other issue is about the INTERPOL. For most of the deaths, no one tells us anything about the postmortem report or what the investigations found. We need the Director of Criminal Investigations (DCI), Mr. Kinoti and the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) here. They should share intelligence, the same way INTERPOL does and be linked up with the families of the deceased. You will"
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