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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Macharia",
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        "legal_name": "Jacob Waweru Macharia",
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    "content": "take these people to foreign countries, they confiscate their travel documents. We know, especially those who go to work in Europe, that travel documents are never confiscated. As I speak, Eunice Waitherero from my constituency is still stranded. Recently, we struggled to bring back Salome Wangari and Jane Njeri. I sympathize with all those girls from Kenya who have been sending us messages on WhatsApp and simply saying, “Before I die, please, help me.” The question, therefore, begs: “Where is the embassy? What has the embassies done?” We know that our embassies mainly in the Arabian countries have been in existence and yet they have not been helping us to bring these girls back home. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has also been lax. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, it is important that the whip is cracked through the Ministry of Labour, Social Security, and Services so that we put together an authority to check the employment agencies. Most of them are just a cluster. They open an office and charge these poor girls who are going to die in the Arabian countries up to Kshs35,000. Once they have acquired enough girls and there is an outcry, they then close their office and run away. This kind of impunity cannot be allowed to continue in a democratic state that is ruled by law. Hon. Nyokabi here has a list of names of people which she cannot, probably, table here because she has obtained the names through WhatsApp. I have also given her some other names which I was given by parents. It is a very sad state because this list should be with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and also the Departmental Committee on Defence and Foreign Relations. Something should be done about this list. We should be tracking these names. Hon. Nyokabi and other hon. Members here take personal initiative whenever their constituents are in trouble. We take personal initiative by going to the Ministry of Labour, Social Security and Services. Sometimes we pay for their airfares so that they get here. Why are our embassies becoming very ineffective? I support."
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