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    "id": 1473604,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "The Cabinet Secretary for Labour and Social Protection",
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    "content": "(Hon. (Dr.) Mutua): Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. It is good for the country to know that the system works this way. There are jobs in many countries, but our people cannot work in those countries because we do not have a bilateral labour agreement that Kenyans can work in those countries unless a company employs them and they go through a process. We signed the bilateral labour agreements to indicate to the other countries that Kenyans would be allowed to work in the jobs for which they want people to get visas. So, if there are 100,000 jobs, Kenyans can compete within those 100,000 slots and others will go to other countries. However, the door has been opened for Kenyans because it is closed in many places where we cannot go. After all, there is no agreement between the countries. The jobs are sourced in two ways; the main way is that governments in those countries are not the ones employing; it is companies. Companies work with agencies. So, a company will decide, \"I want to get so many skilled nurses to come and work for my hospital.\" They normally look for an employment agency there that now comes to source them in Kenya. They can write to an agency in Kenya and ask whether they can get the workers via demand letters. They are called demand letters. The demand letters will indicate that 500 nursing opportunities have been given to this company. Then the company writes to the National Employment Authority (NEA) about the order it has received. Madam Temporary Speaker, normally, you let the employment agencies do their work. They are the ones who know how to do the interviewing processes, the identification, the follow up with the police for documents. That is their work and not the Government’s to handhold people. Number two, there are government-to-government jobs. Where the Government says, as a Government, they want to employ for a government institute. The Ministry of Labour and Social Protection now runs advertisements. It welcomes the Government agency in that country to come here and we provide for them, the Kenyans, to be interviewed by them. So, that becomes a government-to-government job placement. However, those are few and in between. The majority prefer to go through agencies because that is the style that is used all over the world. Thank you."
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