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    "id": 948270,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Muhoroni, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Onyango Oyoo",
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        "legal_name": "James Onyango Oyoo",
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    "content": "As the Chairman has stated here, the biggest problem is the many briefcase agents who recruit people behind the normal ethical standards of the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection. So, the arrangements they make and the employees they take outside there are not covered by the labour laws. They are not officially registered by the embassy and the labour attachés are not able to follow their movements and challenges properly because they are not registered. How I wish that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Trade and the Ministry of Interior and Coordination of National Government would be very strict with these briefcase agents and make sure that those who are allowed to do the business of signing the contracts or sending these immigrant workers abroad are those who are registered and have records that can be followed up. Otherwise, as a Committee, we have done our best. We engaged the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Trade and the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection. We agreed that while we have serious unemployment at home, it will also be an advantage to export our labour which we have done and we are doing. It also generates income to our economy. So, we should support it and make sure that those who have suggestions on how best we can improve the programme bring them forward rather than condemning or believing in the past which was free for all. I am sure that is the impression that many of our Members still have. Based on the Report, when our able Chairman and two Members visited the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia on a fact-finding mission, I want to allay the fears of Members in this House that the situation has improved and it is likely to improve more if we have your support."
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