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    "speaker_name": "The Cabinet Secretary for Labour and Social Protection",
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    "content": "We take you one step further. You may qualify on paper but in terms of national intelligence, are you a crook? Have you been barred somewhere else? Are you working with other people? We go further to ensure that the vetting weeds out the bad people. I have learned that out of the people vetted, about 30 to 40 per cent never qualify, even though they had the documents. It is a real operation to ensure that we get the best. The Government here does its job. After approval, you pay a full registration fee. Then you have to be a member of a recognized association of Private Employment Agencies because we need somebody to keep on monitoring you so that when you go rogue, they can tell us. The people engaging in foreign recruitment will then execute a Kshs1.5 million security bond to the bank. To add to this, I will be holding a follow-up meeting tomorrow with the recruitment agencies that recruit for people in Kenya and mostly overseas. We had a meeting about two-and-a-half to three weeks ago where we deliberated about how we can work together. How do we cut the bureaucracy? How do we identify the crooks? Where is the problem? How do we reform NEA? How do we reform the National Training Institute (NTI)? How do we reform the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection to ensure that it is current in terms of the needs of the market? We have therefore been holding meetings and even after this session, I will hold a meeting with my staff to deliberate on new regulations and new policies that we will announce tomorrow after we have had this public participation with the team to streamline this industry ndio tuwatoe wakora and ensure its efficiency. The list of recruitment agencies cleared to operate by NEA can also be found in our neamis.go.ke. It is current. Some fall out every day, some are added every day. I can give you a list today and tomorrow, you will be asking how come this company is no longer in the list. It is alive. As we sit here, others are being on-boarded and others being removed. It even shows you the ones whose licenses have expired and are in the process of renewing. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, one of the things that I will announce tomorrow is about the duration time of renewals. The country has been crying that renewal every year does not work well. This is because by the time you organise people and take them abroad, your time is gone. We will look at how we can extend the time and make it easier for people to register and work within the system. Question (c) was about the list of Kenyans who have successfully applied for jobs in the diaspora, including the countries they are deployed. We have attached a list and it is presented here. We hope that the list will grow now that we are trying to make this as efficient as possible as the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection. The next question was on the status of the investigation into the operation of Ms Worth Start Africa Limited. This is a case being handled by the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI). I will be holding a meeting with the senior leadership of the DCI. They told me that they are working with close to a thousand cases of Kenyans who have been defrauded and action will be taken. Concerning the supplementary question that was asked by Sen. Cherarkey on whether the Ministry will compensate the victims, I would like to say that the Ministry The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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