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    "id": 1183946,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1183946/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Veronica Maina",
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    "content": "While it may be important for the youth to seek this form of employment outside Kenya and in jurisdictions such as Saudi Arabia, I am certain that these workers never signed up to go and face the forms of abuses that they face within Saudi Arabia. The moment is now ripe for those negotiations that may or may not have not been done between the Government of Kenya and Saudi Arabia be done. As the bilateral talks that will foment the relationship between the two nations are being initiated, it behoves on the actors to and the Cabinet Secretaries concerned, to cease movement until the migrant workers from Kenya are no longer facing the abuse they have been exposed to from the time they were sent to Saudi Arabia. I note that in 2021, Philippines suspended deployment of workers to Saudi Arabia because of the nature of environment their workers were facing there. That was suspended until October this year. What does that say? Tangible action can be taken by Kenya in terms of defining the terms of the relationship that must be had between the employer and the employee before the employee leaves Kenya. The violation of the workers’ rights has drastically worsened with time with increased death and distress cases warranting firm and decisive action to curb any further suffering of the Kenyan domestic workers in Saudi Arabia. I am alive to the fact that if you look at the earnings that Kenya had from Saudi Arabia last year, it could be in excess of US$184 million. The question one must ask him or herself is: who are these agencies running these businesses so blindly and not interested in the rights and the welfare of the people they are trading over their heads?"
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