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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof.) Kindiki)",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I thank you for giving me an opportunity to add my voice in support of this important report. I will be very brief. First of all, the challenge of Kenyan nationals working in foreign countries is a big challenge affecting our country. Secondly, our Ministry of Foreign Affairs, through the Kenyan missions abroad have done not so good a job. This is because part of their core mandate in the places where they have embassies, high commissions and permanent representative missions is to ensure that they have a database of all Kenyans who live there, where they live and what they do, including the everyday experiences that may be of concern to us, as a country. That is why we spend a lot of money to keep and maintain embassies and high commissions in over 50 capitals of the world. Some of them are multilateral stations. Therefore, I am afraid that our Ministry of Foreign Affairs may not have done a very good job in that respect. I agree with Senior Counsel, Sen. Omogeni, that our Cabinet Secretaries (CSs) and PSs should travel abroad and negotiate and look at the conditions that our fellow countrymen and women are going through abroad. However, I do not see any sense wasting money in that kind of an effort when we have permanent missions and embassies abroad. Thirdly, it is my view that the Ministry of Labour, especially the National Employment Authority (NEA) and other agencies of Government that are responsible for labour matters have also done a very good job. This country requires a complete database of all persons who are involved in recruitment and exportation of labour abroad. I say so because this database is not only important for our country in terms of tracking where our people are abroad, but it also helps us in conjunction with other countries of the world to minimize and mitigate the consequences of illegal migration and trafficking of persons. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I am afraid that some of our countrymen and women maybe have been caught in the intricate and lucrative business of trafficking persons abroad. I also call upon our country to develop meaningful and close collaborative arrangements with the International Organization for Migration (IOM), which has a very good database of people and movements, including movement for purposes of labour and migration in many parts of the world. Some of the information that our Ministry of Labour and agencies that this House wants to have could be provided by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) which has one of the biggest regional office here in Nairobi that serves quite a number of countries."
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