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    "id": 22630,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/22630/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Onyonka",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Foreign Affairs",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Richard Momoima Onyonka",
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    "content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) I am aware that there are very many unscrupulous labour agencies operating in Nairobi, and which are unknown both to the Ministry of Labour as well as the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Those agencies are responsible largely for the misfortunes of many Kenyans, especially the Kenyan youth, who are going to the Middle East to seek for jobs. Most of those briefcase companies exist. Some of them do not have permanent addresses and even registrations numbers. Most of those briefcase agencies use mobile phone numbers and they also frequently change those numbers to avoid any detection so far. They prey on innocent Kenyan families with the promise of good jobs in the Middle East which, most of the time, turn out not to be true. Those agencies have proven to be very clever and elusive and they operate very successful because, sometimes, they are assisted by Government officers. The nature, character and success of those agencies’ operations point to some collusion with some Ministries and, particularly, the Ministry of Labour. There are organizations that have made it possible for those agencies and their operators not to be prosecuted successfully. Most of the individuals who are recruited by those companies leave Kenya without a word to the Government or, indeed, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs or any other Government agency. Even upon arrival at the destinations of the promised jobs, they do not contact the nearest Kenyan Embassy. Most of the individuals, before they leave Kenya, sign a form of agreement which usually ties them down to some so-called “employers’ prior notification” which makes it impossible for us to trace the individuals when they go to those countries."
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