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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murkomen",
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        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, that is true. There is something; I do not know what you are looking for. The only remaining post you should be is the Senate Majority Leader. Congratulations! First, I would like to thank the Standing Committee on Labour and Social Welfare. I have a lot of respect for Sen. Sakaja and the Committee he leads and the work he has done. The issue of labour migration to Saudi Arabia is something that has bothered this country for far too long. In the last Parliament, if someone can remind me her name, the Nominated Senator from Mombasa, Sen. Emma Mbura, was so passionate about issues related to violence meted on migrants by their hosts in Saudi Arabia. It was something that was dear to her heart, before and after she lost the position as Senator. Until like two or three years ago, she used to send me messages. I have not communicated with her for quite some time, but all her messages were related to the work or the advocacy of migrants to Saudi Arabia. When we are discussing here, we are not removed from the reality. We are discussing about somebody‟s child, daughter, sister or brother. A lot has been highlighted about women. Most the victims killed in Saudi Arabia have been women. However, it is not just confined to women. There are men going through other forms of abuse in the same country, even though reports of death are not as predominant as women. Most of the people taken as domestic workers from other countries are not men, but women. Men go there for other reasons than working in the homesteads of the persons who are living in that country. I am aware that the Ministry estimates that we have 104,000 Kenyans who are working in Saudi Arabia. It is also true, as this report captures, that for quite a long time there has never been a clear procedure and mechanism for taking people to work in Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Dubai and many other countries in the Middle East. Unlike the situation in developed countries in Europe, United States of America and Australia, where most of the migrants are working in the health sector and are recruited by agencies in the countries and little is done by the agencies in this country. In Australia and other parts our citizens apply directly to get jobs there through the links they have. The unique programme we have at the moment is taking nurses to the United Kingdom which is a Government-to-Government arrangement. It is unfortunate that the Ministry of Health reported publicly that we could not take advantage of the United Kingdom opportunities for nurses because of English proficiency among our nurses. I do not know the truth about the statement on whether English proficiency is a big issue for"
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