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    "id": 948286,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/948286/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kangundo, Muungano",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Fabian Muli",
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        "legal_name": "Fabian Kyule Muli",
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    "content": "Another challenge we have is that many of our house girl immigrant workers do not go for house girl jobs. They just enjoy travelling by flight. Many people who sign contracts to migrate for professional jobs like security guards and clerical jobs do not have challenges because many people know they are definitely going to work in those capacities. Let me illustrate using the scenario of many domestic workers in our country. In this country, housemaids, including those working for Hon. Members seated in this House, work until late in the night. Sometimes it is not easy to enforce a domestic contract. Why? Employers are different and sleep at different times. So, a house girl working in Nairobi ends up sleeping so late. Sometimes they end up waking up earlier than expected of an accountant in an office. That is why in Saudi Arabia there are also those challenges. I am urging hon. Members that Kenya being a Third World country, it is very important to train our youth. You have to work for it to make it. There is nowhere money is put for somebody to wake up and become rich tomorrow. Iraq was a crazy country at that time I worked there. Ninety per cent of the guys I worked with there pulled out. Unless you are committed to work in the Middle East, do not go there. If you sign the employment contract, you must work. They only follow the terms in the contract. Otherwise, the propaganda in the media saying that there is a problem is not true since problems are everywhere. Even in Kenya when you go to industrial area, there are too many cases in the Industrial Court. We are not going to be an angel country to send migrant workers. There are too many migrant workers who are enjoying their salaries and sending money home, building houses, opening businesses back home and doing well but there is a percentage of migrant workers who face the challenges which can be sorted out."
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