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    "content": "what it will need in five years, so that courses taught in our institutions such as universities are aligned to the market needs. Today, everyone is doing procurement and I wonder why. Just because you have gone to university does not mean you will get education that will give you a job. The NEA has the mandate under the law to do vetting and registration of all employment agencies. In this report, we have stated that all agencies must be freshly vetted and must have the financial capacity to guarantee safe repatriation of any Kenyan who needs to come back. That is what is done by other countries. Let me tell you because some Members do not know, but this is booming business. I met the mega recruiters there such as Maharah and the rest and they were asking for 2,000 Kenyans. For each one of them, you are given between USD1,000 to USD2,000. Calculate that. So, they see it as a commodity. This is more than exporting cows and other agricultural products. They just put them in a plane. I love what Sen. (Prof.) Kindiki has said. It is always good to listen to professors. The same model they have in the professional body is what the association of agents should have. Saudis have a system called Musaned. We should be able to tell where an agent comes from and where they operate from. If they move, we should also know where they have gone to and the girls under their care. The relationship should not end. Part of the USD2,000 or USD1,500 should be a contribution to a welfare fund. For example, if it is USD1,500, USD200 should go to a welfare fund because when one loses their life or are distressed and come together under the body I told you called Jaliyat, they are helped. I have heard an embassy saying that Kenyans should not contribute money to support another Kenyan, but they are not being helped, yet you do not want them to meet. All those recommendations are in this report. I want to thank Senators. Let me not take much time. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, a few weeks ago, I represented the Senate in a meeting with the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and I am glad professor has mentioned it. In the meeting, we discussed the national coordinating mechanism for migration. There is a proposed national migration policy. In the national migration policy, I told them that for the sake of Kenya, the area they need to boost more--- I do not think we have as much emerging refugee issues or other aspects of migration as much as labour. The chapter on labour actually stands alone. It is labour migration policy from which we should have a legislation because there is no labour migration law. I told them that I also know how the process of formulation of policy takes long in this country especially now that we will have a transition. It has to go to a Cabinet sub- committee before being reduced to a sessional paper by the Cabinet and that could take two or three years. We cannot wait for that. We are working with them and I pray that I will be able to sponsor the National Labour Migration Bill. Whatever engagements our missions are getting into are because of statutes and not because of relationship of specific ambassadors at certain times. It will have provisions on how Kenyans should be treated and what happens. You will not take away Kenyan passports or confiscate their phones because the law does not allow and there"
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