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    "id": 1129714,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sakaja",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Johnson Arthur Sakaja",
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    "content": "casket. We looked at all the issues including labour attaches, the kind of arrangement between Kenya and Saudi Arabia on the bilateral labour agreements and the need for skilled labour agreement. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we looked at the need for safe houses and more labour attaches. There was only one gentleman driving the whole of Saudi Arabia. We need eight on Riyadh and eight in Saudi. We gave a list of recommendations and said that until the Government demonstrates movement towards that, we suspend all labour migration. That is a report that has been adopted by this House and transmitted to the Head of Public Service and the CSs. If any of that is going on, it is illegal. I know certain unscrupulous people who do not care about our girls. They care about business. They have gone and approached the National Assembly in the same committee to tell them to change the outcome. How do we have two committees doing two different reports? They approached the leadership there. We know people in high positions in this country who are exporting our girls like potatoes. We will name them. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, let the Government just demonstrate how they are dealing with that. These are people’s mothers and sisters. Even just today, in my group from school, I am seeing distress calls. I am not a labour attaché, but there are so many distress calls. We must stand our brand as the Senate. We voted by delegation a resolution of this House suspending that labour migration. If they demonstrate in a week, we will open it up. If they do in two weeks, we will open it up, but will not allow our girls to go. Every agent, when they send a girl out, gets round USD1500. Instead of seeing a human being, they are seeing USD1500. That we will not allow. My colleagues in the National Assembly, Kenyans are looking at you. Do not do business with our girls. Just look at our Report and adopt it. There is nothing new. In fact, we asked some of the people we met in Saudi to come and see you. There is nothing new you are going to do. We are more thorough, but let us work together. Ideally, we should have gone together on this inquiry. Let us not sacrifice the lives and livelihoods of Kenyan girls at the altar of money. We concluded our inquiry in the creative industry. We looked at the issues in the creative industry. Recently when I was one of the guests when KTN News was relaunching, I asked the media houses to pay artists their royalties. Musicians need to get their royalties. We sat with the Creative Society of Kenya, the Ministry of ICT and Youth, Communication Authority of Kenya (CAK), Kenya Copyrights Board, Media Owners Association, like Sen. Olekina here, is one of them, Safaricom and content managing organisations. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we agreed and I am glad about the journey we started in around 2015 with President Uhuru Kenyatta and my late friend, Bob Collymore. At that time, an artist was getting less than 10 per cent of their own work when you buy a Skiza tune. We moved it up to 30 per cent thanks to the efforts of The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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