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    "id": 496722,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Sunjeev",
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        "legal_name": "Sunjeev Kour Birdi",
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    "content": "Thank you very much, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this very important Motion. I thank hon. (Ms.) Kanyua for bringing this Motion to this House at a time when our citizens and our children are crying to our Government to do something about the atrocities they face in countries like Saudi Arabia. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, as a Committee we happened to travel to Dubai and we met our ambassador in Dubai. We asked him about the problems that Kenyans face in Dubai. Of course, we also asked him about the business opportunities, but that is a different matter. What do people go to do in Dubai? They go there to look for money because they are made to believe that there is employment and money there. Therefore, when Kenyans leave Kenya, one of the problems is that they do not leave behind their addresses and so it becomes difficult to trace them. I agree with the other hon. Members who said that we should have an agency that monitors the movement of people who go to work outside the country. I would also like to say that apart from domestic violence, there is enslavement, sexual harassment, exploitation and racial discrimination, amongst others. In places like Saudi Arabia crime like theft can be given a death penalty. If somebody in Saudi Arabia murders a Kenyan citizen, what then should be the sentence for that person? Of course, I reiterate what everybody else said, that we should have proper systems in place to take care of our people. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I would like to quote from a website called embassyfinder.com. If you open that website, you will see various comments made by Kenyan citizens, mostly ladies. They say “SOS, I am in need of help. Please help me” and so on. But then after that, you see somebody else saying: “I am a mechanical engineer looking for a job, please help me.” This is a very interesting website. If we need to trace our people and get to them, we can do that. What I find so strange is that despite all these comments from certain people about being in trouble; we still have others who are willing to go there. I find that petrifying because I would not go to a place where there is such a big threat to my life. I think one thing that has always been a case in our country, is poverty. Poverty drives our citizens to that place. To conclude, I would not like to say that these are not Kenyans, they are our sisters, mothers and sisters. I just hope that the Government will look into this. Thank you. 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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