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    "content": ". They are called Kembois because they ran away from their contracts. They are Kenyans nonetheless, but they have run away from their contracts. This is because there are some rogue agents there, who come and tell you, “sister Naomi Shiyonga, you have been hired to this family at Kshs50,000, now you know there is a job for Kshs150,000 job”. She leaves that employment, yet she has deposited her documents. When she goes to that country, which is very strict, without certain identification, she cannot even get access to healthcare. We have had Kenyans dying at the gates of hospitals in Riyadh and Jeddah. Are these things that we should gloss over as a house and as leaders? Will God forgive us, for glossing over these things; of only looking at the financial benefits that certain people are getting? God forbid. Let it never be said that in our time in this House, we saw such things happening and got information from those involved. We sat with ministries from two states, a kingdom and a government, and yet gloss over such a report. God forbid. I will not be part of that. That is why this Committee wants to take the move. Some may call it drastic. I have some Senators saying that we are throwing out the baby in the water; we are not. We are recommending as a Committee, that all labor migration of domestic workers--- I need to be very clear. The Majority Whip is distracting the Seconder of this Motion. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we are recommending that all labor migration of domestic workers from Kenya to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, be immediately suspended upon the passage of this report, until the Executive demonstrates that the following basic minimums have been put in place. The suspension is for a period until certain conditionalities have been put in place by the Executive of the Republic of Kenya. First, we need the establishment of the status of all Kenyans currently in Al Malaz Prison in Riyadh, Tarhil Deportation Center in Riyadh, Sakam, which is a new deportation center Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and all the many other prisons and deportation centers within the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia with the aim of repatriating them back to the county. The government must speak to the government."
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