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    "content": "nothing as a Government? That should not be. Any Kenyan that dies in a foreign country under mistreatment is a mistreatment to all of us, Kenyans. I do not even feel inspired to take a trip to the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia or Qatar if this is what they are doing to my brothers and sisters. It is not right. We are talking about people who are domestic workers and are serving with dedication. They are mistreated, killed and exploited after which the dead bodies are just sent back. When some of these Kenyans land in Saudi Arabia - I do not know whether Sen. Sakaja was able to establish this - their phones are confiscated. They are not allowed to communicate to their motherland, not even through email or WhatsApp. So, they are working incommunicado. They are more or less prisoners. I do not know whether this is just happening to Kenyans or other nationalities are also experiencing the same. Senator, did you establish what happens to nationalities from other countries? Are they subjected to the same treatment? Is it because of the colour of our skin? This is annoying. These are not strangers, but people from your village and my village. It could happen to your children. It is only that you are lucky that you are able to give them good education and they can find jobs. However, it could happen to anybody, even our aunties. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we must demand some immediate action on these recommendations that have been put forth by this Committee, especially recommendation No.1 on the return to Kenya of all current and former domestic workers who are in distress and stuck in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. We want to hear that Kenya Airways has been sent there, tickets bought for these Kenyans and they are brought back to the country. Chairman, we will send you to receive them at the airport. Secondly, we want an investigation done and a report submitted to the Senate, so that we get to the bottom of this problem. We do not want what is happening on the social media. When I walked here, Sen. Cherargei told me that my wife is trending on social media. There are Kenyans who misuse social media to character assassinate other people, like what they are doing to my spouse. I want to tell them that as I stand here as the Senator of Nyamira, I love my wife, support her in what she does and will be unshaken. She will continue to dispense justice as a Judge of the High Court of Kenya. The shenanigans going on in social media will not shake Kenyans who want to serve their motherland. One year ago, I made a report to the Ministry of Interior and Coordination of National Government. I reported to Gigiri Police Station about somebody who went to the media and was doing character assassination on my person and my own mother. I am a son of Nyamira and everybody knows. My mother is a respected woman in Nyamira, but somebody was writing in social media that my mother was married in Luo land, in Siaya; gave birth to me in Siaya, then migrated to Nyamira; bullshit, nonsense! That kind of ineptitude we see from our own investigative agencies should not be reflected out there."
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