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    "content": "say when you land in Dubai or anywhere in the Middle East, your relationship with the agency ends, yet the agency should have an obligation to bring you back. They have an obligation when you are in distress. Most of the embassies that we have abroad should have such mechanisms to assist. I also request that even as these agencies are vetted here in Kenya, our embassies abroad must assist us by vetting those agencies in those areas. Even the Kenyan Embassy should be telling us if a Kenyan like Sen. Cherargei works in Nairobi, we should be able to know the address, where they work, which estate they live in and which property they own so that it becomes easy for tracking. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I want to thank Sen. Sakaja‟s led Committee. They have done a superb job, but I challenge them to bring legislative and policy interventions. One of the Solomonic directions on how they can do shaking changes is by proposing a directorate of diaspora issues only. In that directorate, there should be issues of labour, investments, counseling, risk centres, repatriation and holding centres as well as deportation centres. When these Kenyans are brought back, we must have a programme of re- integration in the society. We must look at this. For example, when they are deported back into the country they should be reintegrated in the society. That is another issue I challenge Sen. Sakaja‟s led Committee to look into. You can die out of depression because mental health is becoming a problem. If you deport somebody from those countries, they come and do not have anything. If we do not do proper reintegration into the society, they can become societal problems or societal misdemeanours. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I support this Motion and thank Sen. Sakaja‟s Committee for providing leadership. I hope when Sen. Sakaja becomes the Governor of Nairobi City County, he will be able to assist the country in ensuring these agents comply with the law because most of the agencies are based in Nairobi. I know the county government will have a role in licensing these agencies and it will be people who understand the challenges that Kenyans are facing. Majority of the people in the Middle East come from Nairobi City County. Thank you for the opportunity."
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