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    "content": "Riyadh, the company has fulfilled the requirements that will be in the MoU. We should not just send our young people. What kind of employment is that? Slavery has been abolished across the world. If you check the UN protocols on work, free resignation and understanding rolls so high above any contract that you have with anyone. If you get to a point where you feel you can no longer do the work, it does not matter what kind of contract you signed. It should get to a point where these Kenyans have this kind of choice. Maybe I thought life was better in that area. If I get there and for some reason feel that I cannot stand it anymore, I should not continue to toil and be told that my passport was withdrawn. Those are the stories we hear. Let somebody know, for example, if they need to serve a one-month notice or lose part of their payment. That is what happens even here in Kenya. Let someone know that if they want to come back home, they can easily be allowed. Look at even the issue of Kenyans who are in prisons, some for offences where perhaps they lacked legal representation. If they could have afforded a lawyer, even if a state sponsored--- I have tried to scheme through the report and not seen whether these Kenyans who are in these prisons had legal representation when they appeared before the courts of law. Chances are that they never got that chance. They could not afford and, therefore, they were sentenced. They could also have had the challenge of language barrier. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, you are an elected Member of Parliament, but you know that whenever we travel outside of this country, we even change our mannerisms. Even for those who perhaps take „one for the road,‟ so long as they are not within their country, they do not do the usual things they do when they are in their country. This is because you are afraid, knowing that it is another land. You still adjust yourself to that level in spite of being a state officer, perhaps with state protection. The government of every country you travel to already knows that there is a Kenyan Member of Parliament. Imagine what happens to an ordinary Kipkurui or Cheruiyot, who has come from a village in Kericho and is working in a hotel in Riyadh. If they run into trouble, chances are that their minds block out and they cannot even defend themselves. Some of them are even accused of things they have not done. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, this report speaks to a very important issue; a challenge of our generation. I support it in its entirety. Let us pause for those six months. Sen. Sakaja, I want to measure my words, but I have my problems with that Principal Secretary (PS) over some things I see him posting on Twitter . You cannot do some things as a public officer. You remember at one time, he made very interesting remarks about neighbouring countries and such kinds of things. If a PS can tell a Committee, “put a stop to this,” it tells you that he has abdicated his responsibilities. Instead of PS Kamau telling you to put a pause, he should have come before Parliament with a draft policy for us to approve for him. It means that he has given up on his duties and now he is saying, “please save us”. You know the amount of interest in Kenya in anything where money is involved. This is big business. We are not talking about small money. Kenya is one of those"
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