Entry Instance

HTTP 200 OK
Allow: GET, PUT, PATCH, DELETE, HEAD, OPTIONS
Content-Type: application/json
Vary: Accept

{
    "id": 1623761,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1623761/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 255,
    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mungatana, MGH",
    "speaker_title": "",
    "speaker": null,
    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, for giving me the opportunity to support this Bill. I start by thanking the sponsor of the Bill, the Hon. Sen. Tabitha Mutinda and the team that worked with her to bring this legislative proposal or Bill before this House. A legislative proposal always responds to a certain need that exists within the country. There is a need to regulate these labour employment bureaus. The main purpose of this Bill, and as was stated during the moving of it, is to create an Act of Parliament to provide for the regulation of private employment agencies and the recruitment of workers within and outside Kenya. It is also supposed to safeguard the rights and welfare of job seekers and migrant workers and for connected purposes. Mr. Speaker, Sir, just before I got elected to the Senate, on instruction of my client in the practice of law, I travelled all the way to a border court in Zambia. We had to land in Lusaka and go across Zambia, all the way towards the border near Tanzania. There were ten young men from my county in Tana River. They had been arrested because they were heading towards South Africa. They were going for an employment opportunity that had arisen there. However, they had been misguided in the manner in which they could reach Johannesburg and start working. Some of them were accompanying their friends. They had been misled into believing that they can just go with them using some other panya routes to reach South Africa and start working there. They had been promised better life than what they were doing in Tana River County. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, there is a need for us to look at the employment opportunities being offered outside Kenya and what we can regulate here to make sure our young people are not arrested when they are going that side. We struggled a lot in that particular case. At the end, we succeeded in getting those children, young men, let me call them, back to Tana River County at a great cost. People had to sell their cows and land so that we could manage the court processes in Lusaka and Chinsali at the border between Tanzania and Zambia. Then, we had to get 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."
}