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    "id": 1562074,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1562074/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Musalia Mudavadi",
    "speaker_title": "The Prime Cabinet Secretary and Cabinet Secretary for Foreign and Diaspora Affairs",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Wycliffe Musalia Mudavadi",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I had spoken on the issue of awareness. So, I do not need to go back to it. On the issue of people who take advantage of innocent Kenyans, in the previous response, I said that the Ministry is working with the law enforcement agencies, the DCI and the EACC, so that we can zero in on these unscrupulous people who cause pain and anguish to them. This matter is ongoing. We believe once the investigations are done thoroughly, the procedure is for them to face prosecution through the due process. The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) will take over and they will be taken to court. We are determined to bring order in this area. So, we are following up the cases very closely so that we can have a clean process of assisting Kenyans who want to go and work in different countries. I will do some follow-up on the issue raised by Hon. Nyenze, because I am hearing it for the first time. I would like to reiterate that we are closely following the issues in the areas where we have a lot of problems. We are engaging some of the areas you have mentioned diplomatically, so that we can help in improving the conditions of Kenyans there. I am confident that in due course we will have less of these complaints emerging. On the issue of the Kazi Majuu Programme, we want to adopt a whole-of-government approach. The State Department for Labour and Skills Development in the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection and the State Department for Diaspora Affairs in the Ministry of Foreign and Diaspora Affairs are engaged in a very intricate but detailed conversation, so that we can harmonise the issues around this space. That is why we negotiate bilateral labour agreements. It is so that we do not have a situation where the left hand does not know what the right hand is doing. This is an issue that we are following closely. We do not want to see the kind of headlines that we saw on this issue as we go forward."
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