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    "content": "One of them is Mr. Peter Calisto whom we have met before they abducted and took him. He was a gentleman who had been part of what they call jaleyat a community of Kenyans who come together to help. If you find for instance that, the sister I spoke about, Naomi, has lost status, but she is need of healthcare they come together fundraise and enable this person to get healthcare. They used to have a letter and it is part of the recommendations. The letter said that in as much as the person does not have documentation, they should be recognized as a Kenyan citizen and accorded emergency healthcare first. Peter Calisto has been in deportation since we left the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to date. There are no charges against him. We want it to be established and we be given a full report, and evidence of the complainant. This is because they said it was the employer. The employer said they had not complained, but it was the embassy that has sent him there because he allegedly organized a demonstration. There is also a lady called Lucy Wamaitha Ndiba. They must give us the status of all the Kenyans in those three prisons and deportation centers and why they are, what they are there for, and whether repatriation process of bringing them back can take place. Today I have just seen a video of bodies being removed from a mortuary. They must tell us how many Kenyan bodies are lying in Shamesi Mortuary in Riyadh. Secondly, the Executive must establish the current status of all domestic workers in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, their contacts and places of work. It must set up a database and lines of communication between them and the labor officers at the embassy. Many of those want to continue working. Until you have established that, even the employers know that there is no government watching them. They can mistreat that Kenyan the way they want to and do whatever they want. There is a system called Musaned where for all new labor migration of domestic workers all that information is there because it is part of a bilateral agreement. I can tell Mercy Waithera left Kenya on this date, landed in Jeddah, went to Riyadh, is living with this family; this is her salary and contact. Our labor attaché in Saudi does not have access to it. When we sat down with the head of Musaned in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, they said our labour attaché should get access, because even they want to know, which of their own citizens are abusing other human beings. There must be dignity in this world. Thirdly, we must have the return of all current and former domestic workers who are in distress, and stuck in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and want to come back. There are those who want to come back, and they are not able. That is a conditionality that must be met. Fourthly, suspended until the investigation and submission of a report to the Senate of the cases of Kenya migrant workers whose deaths have occurred in Saudi Arabia. Apart from the number we were given almost casually of 93 without names and proper reasons, we want a proper report. Amongst other things, this report on that issue, must demonstrate the linkages between the labor attaché s and the recruitment agencies in handling of distress calls and other complaints by migrant workers."
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