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    "id": 1120153,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Lang’at",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Christopher Andrew Langat",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. It is my first time to have an opportunity when you are in the Chair. I congratulate you. I was among the first Senators to bring a Statement here on the suffering of Kenyans in Saudi Arabia. I am very happy to have this important report here today before the Senate. I congratulate Sen. Sakaja and his team. I have read the recommendations and I am happy. I have read several articles and reports, especially from Haki Africa and Human Rights Watch about the suffering of Ethiopians, Kenyans, Nigerians and Ghanaians in Saudi Arabia. It is really very touching. Most of them are totally enslaved. They are tortured. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, those who are in the detention centres are living in appalling conditions, especially during this time of COVID-19 pandemic. Most of them are dying and rarely do we get reports. It is only sometimes that we get information through the social media, footages and so forth. I have a cousin who lives in Nakuru. She had gone to Saudi Arabia to look for job opportunity. She was facilitated by an agency to go there to work in a hotel. Reaching there, she was told that job will be realised in six months‟ time. She had to work as a domestic worker. She was tortured and punished to the point that she lost her teeth. I am very sure I brought that Statement here. I am happy during that time, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs managed to locate her and she was brought back to Kenya. However, the challenge that we still have is that her documents, including her degree certificate, which she earned from Egerton University are still under the custody of the former employer in Saudi Arabia. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, apart from their physical torture, these Kenyans also go through economic constraints in those countries. Much of the money they are paid goes to the agencies. In fact, I want to bring to your attention that some of them do not get their salaries direct, but through these agencies, where they slash them and they earn very little. This report is so important."
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