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    "id": 1473613,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "The Cabinet Secretary for Labour and Social Protection",
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    "content": "(Hon. (Dr.) Alfred Mutua): Madam Temporary Speaker, job migration has been occurring in our countries since the JF Kennedy airlifts. Kenyans are free to wake up today, go to the internet, find a job as an engineer at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and apply while they're in Kenya. They are interviewed, get the job, and leave the country to work abroad. Normally, we ask Kenyans to tell us when they go overseas; they go as the diaspora. Some go to work, others go as students, finish studying and work. We cannot start telling Kenyans that they have to tell us exactly where they are going every time they go to the airport and demand an invasion of their rights. I agree with a good Senator from Kitui County that it is important to have a good policy. This policy has to be anchored in law. Currently, we have a labour migration Bill that is alive. It is in the last stages and within the Bill, there are regulations and directions on how we need to handle people going overseas to work. The sourcing of the jobs, creating a data bank so that we know as they go overseas, and everything is done. I have gone a step further with the National Employment Agency. We now require that any Kenyan hired through our agencies, which are the majority, get a letter from my Ministry that clears them. The letter says that the Ministry and the agency have reviewed the documents. We are tying in this letter with the immigration system. Once we give you that letter, we ensure your details are captured in the immigration system. So, as you leave the country, when you present your passport and they scan it, the system immediately shows that this person is going away for employment. Some get the demand and the letters and do not leave the country. They change their minds. They get better jobs in the country, or they decide otherwise so that we will know exactly who is leaving the country, their full names and where they are going because the ticket details will be there. So that we can capture it and do not have to follow up. The information is given to the diaspora, so even as they arrive in a particular country, the embassies know we have the following persons coming to work because we 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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