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    "id": 948356,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/948356/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Igembe Central, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kubai Iringo",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Cyprian Kubai Iringo",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving this opportunity to contribute to this Report. From the outset, the Committee tried its best to do the finding and benchmarking on what is happening with our fellow citizens who are in Saudi Arabia. As I support this Report, let us appreciate that it is not only Saudi Arabia that people are migrating to. It is not only maids or drivers who migrate out of our country. We have immigrants of many calibres. We have professionals like doctors and teachers who go out. I challenge the Committee to also go and benchmark and see what is happening to our brothers and sisters in other countries. I happened to go to Botswana and I found out that Kenyan teachers are more than the Tswanas; the owners of that country. Most of them went there many years back and they have tried to come back, but they cannot be allowed to come back. If they leave that place, their schools will not have teachers. Therefore, we get these problems outside there because most of the immigrants are unfortunately not registered with the Immigration Department. The Ministry of Labour and Social Protection is not aware of them. They go there through panya routes and nobody can account for them. This is a failure of the Ministry and the Immigration Department. We should have a database of all Kenyans who went out there to look for greener pastures. On the same note, we need to create jobs, so that we can discourage emigration. If we create jobs for our youths, they will remain in our country and start industries. We are currently talking of the Big Four Agenda and that is where the country should be focusing seriously. This will drastically curtail emigration. Those who go need to be vetted to ensure that they are qualified to do the job and not just go there and start tarmacking in a foreign country looking for a job which they do not know. Equally, the Ministry needs to put its foot forward and check on the conmen, con-women and con-companies which open offices and once they recruit people and take their money, they sell them just like luggage or bags to foreigners. Then they close office. You cannot follow up to know who they are or where they mushroomed from. The Government has the machinery, including the Directorate of Criminal Investigation (DCI) and the Ministry itself, to know who are enticing our youth to go to these countries. Who are the people making the connections with the embassies? The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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