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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mungatana, MGH",
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    "content": "training. It is credibility of these trainings that this Committee must seek out. It is because from my experience in the courts, the agents who take our children do not give them the real requirements that are necessary for the successful execution of the duties they are going to undertake in the foreign countries. I hope that the Committee captures the real thing in this Statement. They must investigate the credibility of those certificates awarded here. Are the certificates credible? I am inviting the Committee to ask information from the National Intelligence Service (NIS) and the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI). There was a big scandal that our children are given certificates through these agents. When they go there and these people call, they discover that, in fact, this particular person being employed never went through that course and have no idea. It is really tarnishing the image of our country as a great supplier of trained labour. I am asking the Committee to really go deep. They must get private information on what has been happening. I am aware the scandal involved some people within that institution being arrested and prosecuted. I am sure Sen. Tabitha Mutinda must have heard this because it happened here in Nairobi City County. I am asking these people to go deep into it and not just to talk and look at the general standards. We must know electronic databases. For example, if you are taking plumbers, we must have a proper database. It should show their qualifications and when they went in and came out, their grades and the duration of the training. Electronics, in most cases, do not lie. They are less prone to human error. Like other Senators have said, I am praying that a proper report be brought here so that we can look at it and possibly, legislation be fashioned in such a way that we guard the dignity of the quality and kind of labour force that Kenya is known for abroad."
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