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    "content": "globally. Therefore, some of the cases that we have been receiving have been unique in the sense that they have been one-offs; in most occasions the Kenyan Government, through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, has always followed up to know what the problem is and we have tried to resolve some of these cases. (b) The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is also in the process of trying to negotiate with the embassy of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, so that we can address most of these cases because many of them have arisen in Saudi Arabia. The Saudi Government, through the ambassador here, has promised that they are going to make sure they do everything necessary for us to solve these problems. The actions which have been taken are that when we realized that we had many Kenyans being exposed to cruelty, we banned Kenyans from travelling to Saudi Arabia, Qatar and United Arab Emirates (UAE); the purpose for that was to enable us to streamline the recruitment of Kenyans to make sure that no Kenyan is further harmed. There were meetings between two or three of the embassies from the Middle East. Following these meetings the Government put in place the following measures:- (i) We suspended recruitment of domestic workers to go to the Middle East. (ii) A clearing process was introduced, and we are now in the process of making sure that anybody who is travelling, particularly those people travelling to go and do jobs other than domestic work, is provided with the necessary clearances, including issuing a clearance letter before somebody can get a visa from the Saudi Arabia embassy and two other countries. (c) Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs usually makes sure that we follow up through due diligence to find out whether the employers who give jobs to our people exist and whether they have followed Saudi law; we make sure that the process is conducted freely, fairly and is within the law of Saudi Arabia."
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