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    "id": 496710,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/496710/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Dido",
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        "legal_name": "Col (Rtd) Ali Rasso Dido",
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    "content": "Sanctity to life is universal. It is not just the laws of Kenya. It is international law. When Kenyans as global citizens move out there, they are entitled to rights and protection like the citizens of those countries. There are several complaints that have been presented. Kenyans are hoodwinked to move out to the Middle East to work as maybe, clerks or accountants, only for them to end up becoming labourers and to do toiling and back-breaking jobs for which in the first place, they did not sign for. This House is on record that the Committee on Defence and Foreign Relations, which was to visit Saudi Arabia sometime early this year, was not able to travel because the Saudi Government did not provide the visas. For us to come to terms with this and also to resolve it, we must sign labour laws with the countries where our citizens have moved in large numbers to work. Also, we find that there are many agents who are operating in this country. We also establish that many of these agents are neither registered with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs or the Ministry of Labour. I think this is where this loophole is. A large majority of these people who are caught in this web are domestic workers, whether they are ayahs or servants. There must be a law from this country that when such labour is transferred from Kenya to those countries, they must be fully registered, so that our embassies across the world or even in those countries in the Middle East are able to take full account of Kenyan citizens. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I support. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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