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    "id": 686572,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Eng.) Gumbo",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Nicholas Gumbo",
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    "content": "On the last part of Hon. Midiwo’s Petition, do we need all these foreigners who are working in this country? I know it is reciprocal for foreigners to work in our country but the truth of the matter is that a number of foreigners who come to work in Kenya have lower qualifications than our people who are languishing in poverty because of joblessness. As a young engineer in the early 1990s, I had occasion to work with a foreigner who came to Kenya as an expert in dairy. He called himself a professional in dairy and routinely abused us by calling us all sorts of names. We did our own inquiry and found out that the highest rank this fellow had ever risen to in his country was that of a supervisor of a milking plant. How would such a person come here and call himself an expert in dairy? It is happening all over because foreigners come here masquerading as lawyers, doctors, engineers and architects and yet they are merely artisans back in their own countries and would largely be unemployed there. I would like to request you to consider committing this Petition jointly to the Departmental Committee on Labour and Social and Welfare and the Departmental Committee on Finance, Planning and Trade so that we can deeply inquire into the staff malpractices at the EABL. This company is now almost exclusively employing foreigners and giving them jobs that Kenyans can do. Those foreigners mistreat our people, abuse them and make them feel inferior. This is unacceptable. I plead, Hon. Deputy Speaker."
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