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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
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        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
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    "content": "whoever has employed you to work in their homes, then it should be made easy for you to separate. I do not think that you can say it is impossible to have this conversation. I hope this becomes the final time that we, as a Senate, are having this conversation about domestic workers in the Middle East. Let us demand more from the National Employment Authority because it is the regulatory body that licenses these agencies. When that report came to this House and the Motion had been tabled for debate, it is unfortunate that we never considered that Motion because of the many things that arose. At that particular time, there was a big lobby group from the agencies that visited most of us that were here in the corridors of the Senate. They kept on saying that they did not agree with this report because of one very strong proposal that had been made in the report and that is a complete ban and a withdrawal of the licenses for these agencies for them to be vetted and file their recommendations afresh. The aim of this was for Kenyans to see if an agency could account for each and every girl that it had sent to Saudi Arabia for the last one year because permits are given on yearly basis. They did not agree with that recommendation, but it is something worth having a look at and asking them how else they wished to be held accountable because we are placing the lives of young Kenyans into their hands. I believe that this is something that we can follow through our departmental Committee on Labour and Social Welfare. I wish to conclude and request our colleagues who serve in that particular Committee to save us from this shame. I thank and congratulate Sen. Veronica Maina for reminding us about this important topic."
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