24 Nov 2022 in Senate:
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24 Nov 2022 in Senate:
International Airport (JKIA) heading towards the Middle East to see those young Kenyans as they depart. I always think about this. They are normally hounded in groups of about 100, 150 or 200. All of them are always adorned in T-shirts with labels of the recruiting bureaus or agency that is taking them to these far lands. As a leader, I always feel challenged, first of all, at the embarrassment collectively that we have not been able to give opportunities to our young people such that they are going to seek for the same in other far lands. It is ...
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24 Nov 2022 in Senate:
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girls are going to work for should members of their family want to contact them. The family should have an avenue through which they can reach them. The Government should also be challenged to ensure that the labour attaches in those countries are properly funded for them to maintain constant communication with the millions of Kenyans who are working in those far-flung countries. If we do so, it will be possible for them to reach out at the slightest opportunity when any Kenyan runs into problems in whichever part of those countries. I do not understand why and how it ...
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Apart from having them propose an amendment, we, as a House, can demand that the same be brought to this House because it is within our power. We can say that it be done within a specific period of time which can be 30 days, six months or one year. We can do so even after the passage of this Motion. We must begin to be specific in how we do our Motions and pass our legislation. In the last three terms that I have been in this House, this is almost the 10th time that we are having a ...
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24 Nov 2022 in Senate:
Unfortunately, some of our fellow citizens when they get to these countries, they run afoul of the law by doing things that are prohibited in those countries and, therefore, they end up running and having nowhere to stay. These are things that we need to rectify so that there is proper training. When all is said and done, let us have a proper conversation. Let us not just pass this Motion today and say we have done our work, until such a time that we have followed through all the recommendations that have been placed before these Motions. Let us ...
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24 Nov 2022 in Senate:
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whoever has employed you to work in their homes, then it should be made easy for you to separate. I do not think that you can say it is impossible to have this conversation. I hope this becomes the final time that we, as a Senate, are having this conversation about domestic workers in the Middle East. Let us demand more from the National Employment Authority because it is the regulatory body that licenses these agencies. When that report came to this House and the Motion had been tabled for debate, it is unfortunate that we never considered that Motion ...
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22 Nov 2022 in Senate:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, that is a good report that has been presented by the Chair. I appreciate the work his Committee has done. However, I have one comment. At the beginning of a term of Parliament when we are doing such reports, I encourage Committee Chairpersons to not only lay the problem statements but also, go further and propose legislative solutions to the problems they have raised. This is a legislative body. There is no other institution that we are looking up to, to solve many of the challenges, such as enacting the Council of Governors (CoG), County Assemblies Forum ...
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