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    "id": 948263,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/948263/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Bura, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Ali Wario",
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        "legal_name": "Ali Wario",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, when we reached the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, we got an opportunity to sit with our Ambassador, the labour attaché, the representative of Kenyan workers in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and, the Ministry of Labour of Saudi Arabia. I do not deny in any way the suffering or the plight of Kenyan workers in Saudi Arabia. They are suffering. What causes this suffering? For the people we met and those whom we sat with, discussed and shared with us facts on the ground, they told us those people who mostly suffer have no proper contracts. They were taken there by briefcase agencies. The Ministry of Labour and Social Protection has really tried. They have sanitised that particular area. Initially, we had 1,600 agents who were ferrying people to different destinations. With the help of the National Employment Authority (NEA) and the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection, we have 211 registered agents today. Before you were being issued with a certificate to ferry people but now you have to deposit a surety bond of Kshs1.5 million. In case the person who was taken out of this country gets a problem and he cannot travel back to the country, the agency which moved him out of this country is responsible for bringing him back."
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