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    "speaker_name": "Bomet Central, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Ronald Tonui",
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        "legal_name": "Ronald Kiprotich Tonui",
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    "content": "We must also appreciate the issue of cultural shock. Majority of us in this country are Christians: We practice a laissez-faire kind of living. We do not have strict rules. Our morality is very different from that of Muslims. Possibly, that is where our Kenyans could be experiencing problems where they go outside there. We are used to sipping some alcohol which is not allowed there. We go to social places and we are allowed to engage in immoral behaviour, which I understand the people in the Middle East see as dirty. If you engage in these issues and come back to the same family, they may not like it. I believe there is also the issue of cultural shock which can be dealt with by employment agencies before they take people to work outside. They need to be given orientation on what to expect there, the way to behave and how to relate with Muslims. As Christians, we pretend a lot. We are only Sunday Christians since we do not practise it as a way of our lives. We behave in other ways during the rest of the days. The issue of culture shock for those who go to work outside the country needs to be handled well. I also understand Kenyans are really appreciated out there. Why? This is because they can speak some English. I understand English is appreciated in the Middle East. I understand Kenyans are even preferred to other nationalities. Those are the advantages we need to appreciate and then we promote our people to go there. We also need to create a fund for labour export. People who are jobless cannot even pay to process a passport. And they cannot even afford flights to go out. So, we need to have a fund specifically to sponsor some Kenyans to go to those places where there are chances of getting employed. We need to take care of that. It can be a revolving fund. Once they go there, they can repay. I understand the ones being sponsored in terms of flights are only the domestic workers. Other professionals are required to travel on their own to those country, attend interviews and get employed. Those are some of the issues that we need to address. Hon. Millie Odhiambo was very unfair to this Committee in her comments. She said that this Committee is not serious. We know that this Committee is among the most serious committees in this Parliament. She only alluded to the visit by this Committee to the Child Welfare Society; that by visiting and not condemning them, they were being unfair. I believe she should have come out to declare her interest which is that Child Welfare Society is her competitor in terms of taking care of children. She accused some people here of talking about child trafficking and such. I have never heard in the Committee on Labour and Social Welfare her name being mentioned as being part of child traffickers. It is very unfair for her to paint the Committee in different light. If you are engaging with issues of children and you also send them to foreigners for adoption, of course, you are a potential… 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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