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    "id": 965470,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murkomen",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
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        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
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    "content": "consonance with the Companies Act. This is because if you talk about 70 per cent, the Companies Act says over 50 per cent. Therefore, the Committee must relook that. National Treasury have a role to develop, promote, support training capacity and procurement related issues. The Authority’s functions have also been enhanced to include developing, promoting and supporting training and capacity development of persons involved in procurement and asset disposal. I probably think this came from the staff who felt like the agency did not have the mandate to enhance their capacity and perhaps budgetary expenditure was being stopped for that purpose. They generally needed a process for validation of that. Most of these comments are just here and there, to correct small typos and new terminologies used under the new Constitution. Notification related to enter contract is provided there and so forth. As I said, we are jumping from one Act to another. The provisions on the Public Procurement Disposal Act are more detailed but most of them are contractual related issues. National Employment Authority - the one for Sen. Sakaja I do not know where he is because he is the one who sponsored the Bill when he was in the National Assembly - there is a new section that has been inserted on the role of the National Employment Authority. If I may read this one, in addition to the functions specified under Section 8, the Authority shall- (a) Advise the Cabinet Secretary on all matters concerning labour migration. (b) Co-ordinate the various labour migration activities to ensure protection of Kenyan migrants workers and promote their welfare. (c) Register and maintain an integrated data of all Kenyan migrant workers. (d) Approve pre-departure training programmes and ensure that Kenyan migrants undergo the relevant pre-departure preparation before leaving to work outside Kenya. (e) Undertake research and collect and disseminate information on labour migration. (f) Ensure that Kenyan migrant workers who are in distress are assisted and returned to Kenya (g) Develop and implement programmes to ensure that Kenyan migrant workers returning to Kenya are reintegrated in society. (h) Develop and implement programmes to ensure Kenyan migrant workers returning to Kenya have been victims of trafficking and tied to the rehabilitated programme. (i) Provide legal and necessary assistance for Kenyan migrant workers who are in distress. (j) Formulate programmes to enable Kenyan migrant workers enter into technical jobs, better wage employment, entrepreneurial development and investment of savings. This is key because this section deals with a problem we are facing at the moment where Kenyans are taken to various countries in the world to be tortured. They are being trafficked for sex and slavery. Slavery is now prevalent in the world because of these kinds of practices that are going on."
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