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    "content": "Emirates (UAE) in search of greener pastures. If our country called Kenya put in place mechanisms for these young Kenyans to find employment, they would never have found their way to these countries. When you read stories that have been captured by the Committee chaired by Sen. Johnson Sakaja, this is a matter that should call for an urgent reaction from our Government. We need action now and not tomorrow. In fact, it should have been done yesterday. Here are Kenyans who genuinely without committing any crime, look for opportunities for employment out there. They go to employment bureaus, they are offered jobs and go to Saudi Arabia. What do they receive in return? Not only are they paid low, poor salaries but they are mistreated in the hands of their masters. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we keep quiet as a country. I ask what is the essence of having a Government that we say is a Government of the people, by the people, for the benefit of the people? The Government is there to protect the vulnerable, the poor and those who cannot speak for themselves. I am even wondering whether the Government has read this report ever since it was tabled before this House and the recommendations there. The first one I am seeing is that the Committee has made a very urgent request that all Kenyans currently out there, who are in distress and stuck in Saudi Arabia be repatriated back to the country. As we speak this afternoon, what action has the Government of Kenya done? Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I am speaking as somebody who has witnessed first- hand, a victim who left this country after her fourth form, a sister of the former Chairperson of the Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT) in Nyamira County. She went to Saudi Arabia and disappeared, incognito with no communication and after six months, it was discovered that this lady had died in the hands of her employer in Saudi Arabia. Then you go through the agony of looking for money to bring that body back to the country. Do we have an embassy in Saudi Arabia? Does it care about the welfare of these poor Kenyans? This is a report that should provoke action and sympathy from our Government. It is a sorry state of affairs. What is the Office of the hon. Attorney-General doing? How do you allow Kenyans to leave this country, go out to be employed, then they are subjected to this inhuman and almost servitude kind of treatment? We hear nothing from our Attorney-General. What has he done, as we speak today? These are some of the happenings that should call for resignation of some office holders; 80,000 Kenyans and you feel nothing? You are behaving as if nothing at all is happening. Just the other day, I read in the social media – I do not know how true that was – that Luis, an Interior Minister in Peru resigned simply because he violated observance of some COVID-19 regulations. Here, we have an Attorney-General who does not care, has done nothing and feels nothing about the suffering of these poor Kenyans. It is a shame. I am a lawyer, but telling the Attorney-General, „shame on you‟. As a country, how do we sit back and feel as if nothing has happened? How many Kenyans must die before we see action from our country? Are we waiting for another body to be brought and another one next week and month, and we do"
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