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"content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I would like to also join my colleagues to add onto Sen. Cherarkey’s Statement. It is very unfortunate that a medical doctor died as a result of being neglected and not given treatment immediately by the Kenyatta National Hospital, which is supposed to be the National Referral Hospital for all cases, whether it is a civilian, or a public servant, more so, for a doctor. Honestly, it is unethical. Kenyatta National Hospital must take responsibility for whatever has happened. Mr. Speaker, Sir, in this country today, issues to do with health have been so much commercialised. Whenever you take somebody who has had an accident to the hospital, you are asked if they are covered. Even if they are covered, you are told, “Give us time to contact the health insurance”, yet you have somebody who is actually bleeding all over. Why did they not treat the doctor first? If worse comes to worst, they can still hold him in the hospital. After all, he was even working there. Hii ni kukosa utu . It is just missing human understanding. Therefore, the Senate Committee on Health must take this seriously. It is not only Kenyatta National Hospital, but almost across all hospitals in Kenya, today. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I also want to add on Gloria’s Statement that, Kenyans are so unemployed that they have become so desperate. Not only are they desperate, but people who are not employed, especially young men and ladies and women who came from universities are now looking for small jobs, like that of sweepers, then people are taking advantage of that condition. People have been taken to overseas where they cannot even get access to support. They are being underpaid after being duped and told that they are going to get good jobs, yet they end up doing useless jobs. The Cabinet Secretary must take responsibility. We must come up with laws that prohibit Kenyans from being recruited by unknown and greedy people like those who have been recruiting young men and women, causing a lot of problems for the country. It is high time the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection should take responsibility, and register all those people who claim to be recruiting agents. We must have a kind of legislation that will be able to bar or even offer compensation for anybody who has been duped and misled, that he or she will be employed..."
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"content": " Sen. Essie, please, proceed."
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"content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I would like to support the Statement by Sen. Cherarkey. It is actually sad that we can lose a doctor who treats patients for free. This is not the first time we are having such cases. The Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH) has been notorious on this and they give lame excuses when it comes to such issues. For instance, there were claims that this doctor was not fully employed by KNH. This is not a reason to just let him suffer the fate that he ended up with. If this can happen to a doctor, then I pity ordinary citizens who are lying in hospitals waiting for help to come nearby. I wish that we do not continue lamenting about such issues. Instead, we should take stern actions against such happenings in our hospitals on daily basis. I also would like to support the Statement by Sen. Orwoba on recruitment. The moment I saw huge numbers being flagged off to go out of the country, I knew there was a problem. That is why I was reluctant to rush into getting my young people into those programmes because I knew there was an elephant in the room. I was wise. So, Mr. Speaker, Sir, we are not going to take advantage of young people who are suffering from getting help in school. The moment you graduate, there are no jobs for you out here. The moment you think there are greener pastures out there, we have colonialists of our times who still want to terrorize you. So, I would like the Committee that is going to handle that issue to look at it deeply and lead a crackdown of some of these recruitment agencies which are exploiting desperate Kenyans. Thank you."
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"content": " Sen. Orwoba, please proceed."
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"content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I would like to support Sen. Mohamed Chute's Statement on the transparency that is being requested here, on the details of the contractor who was awarded the construction and the status of the Marsabit- Segel-Maikona Road. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the problem we have, and you will see the recurring trend in all the Statements, is that all the Members of this House are constantly asking for transparency of projects and Government programmes that are happening. It is an issue of who is doing business with any programme that has been proposed by the Government. That is the case in all these Statements that have been forwarded here. I am standing here because I am also partly affected by some of the Statements, including the issue of diaspora jobs. I did recruitment in partnership with National Employment Authority, because they called upon me. When the Government of Kenya has come out and said that it has a special programme, someone cannot stand in this House and say that they were wise not to participate. This is the Government of Kenya. Since when does the Government of Kenya, and in all fairness, through a ministry, a Government office, allow for conmen to sit and literally con young people of this country? We cannot say that we are wiser, so we did not participate. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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"content": "People are desperate to go out and seek for work. So, we cannot just write it off as, why did you participate? We have Government programmes, the Universal Health Care, the Social Health Insurance Fund (SHIF) and Social Health Authority (SHA). How can you start telling Kenyans that be wise, do not participate in that? The Government is supposed to be for and stand for the people. So, when a Government initiative on labour export is rolled out, you cannot expect that Kenyans will say, do not touch that because there could be a possibility that they are being conned. That is victim blaming. You cannot blame the victims who have been conned, because some of them actually were conned from the Office of the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection."
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"content": "What are we trying to say to Kenyans? I call upon the President, my party leader, to fire the Cabinet Secretary for Labour and Social Protection because he knows what is happening. He knows why we are standing here upset. This person is incompetent and his interests have been seen. He is not there for the people of Kenya. I want to say this with all fairness, let him go home. Let him go home!"
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