Ali Wario

All parliamentary appearances

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• 9 Oct 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you very much, Hon. Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to contribute. During the budget-making process, there was an effort to move that money from the State Department of Gender to the Ministry of Education. It was through your intervention that money was again reallocated to the State Department for Gender. I am baffled today. We oversee the State Department of Gender. When they appear before us during the 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. view
• 9 Oct 2019 in National Assembly: budget-making process, they give us their strategic plan and we allocate funds to a specific department and then the Executive has sat and moved those funds to another Ministry. As a parliamentary committee, we have raised concerns with the Cabinet Secretary concerned before our Committee. The challenge we face, as the Departmental Committee on Labour and Social Welfare, as raised by Hon. Sankok is how to oversee that Ministry. The indication is that this money will not go to the right department. There is a restricted tender which we do not seem to understand. The Ministry which is dealing with ... view
• 9 Oct 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. Allow me to take this opportunity to register my appreciation to Members who have contributed to this particular Motion. I could have just tabled this Report like any other, but my intention was to share the same with Members so that they enrich it and we walk this walk together. As a 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. view
• 9 Oct 2019 in National Assembly: Committee, despite the challenges faced by Kenyan migrant workers in Saudi and the Middle East, there is an opportunity and that opportunity will address the problem of unemployment in the country. Before 2018, there was no legal instrument. At least, today there is a bilateral agreement and the suffering will be monitored by both Kenya and Saudi Arabia. The other issue I wanted to share with Members is that before 2017, there was no labour attaché representing Kenya anywhere in the world. We have taken the first step and now there is a labour attaché, despite the challenges. One example ... view
• 8 Oct 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for this opportunity. From the outset, I take this opportunity to thank Members. This Report has raised a lot of interest. That is why I decided to move a Notice of Motion to share with Members so that we can get a way forward. The subject in question is very emotive. The challenge we have faced as a Committee is that of employment and mistreatment of Kenyan migrant workers in foreign countries. Just as a background, the International Labour Organisation (ILO) Report of 2018 has placed Kenya among countries with very high unemployment rate ... view
• 8 Oct 2019 in National Assembly: a 3.4 per cent unemployment rate. The United Kingdom (UK) has a 3.6 per cent unemployment rate; Germany has a 3.1 per cent unemployment rate and Kenya stands at 18.4 per cent. This is a very high unemployment rate in the world. As a country, we are sitting on a time bomb. When we address this topic, I appeal to Members to bear with us, understand us and appreciate the problem we are facing as a country. We all agree it is a very emotive issue. Look at the suffering of the Kenyan nation. Saudi Arabians will never come to ... view
• 8 Oct 2019 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, when we reached the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, we got an opportunity to sit with our Ambassador, the labour attaché, the representative of Kenyan workers in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and, the Ministry of Labour of Saudi Arabia. I do not deny in any way the suffering or the plight of Kenyan workers in Saudi Arabia. They are suffering. What causes this suffering? For the people we met and those whom we sat with, discussed and shared with us facts on the ground, they told us those people who mostly suffer have no proper contracts. ... view
• 8 Oct 2019 in National Assembly: There is one issue that I want Members to appreciate. How long ago did we sign a legal instrument with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia or any other foreign country in that relation? The Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between Kenya and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is only nine months old. Definitely, there are teething problems. There was a bigger problem than what we are seeing. If you look at the suffering without looking at unemployment in this country, then you will not go to the depth of the problem facing our people. It is only less than a year ... view
• 8 Oct 2019 in National Assembly: I will respond to specific issues which were raised by Members. One, we need to plan pre-departure training for the workers. We have to appreciate that our awareness level and culture versus the country we are going to are a bit different. So, there are some basic issues. We made recommendations and committee findings. Let us look at this Report in totality. Let us change what is supposed to be changed. Let us force the Executive to invest in the foreign attachés so that they can help. In some countries we have gone to, some labour attachés cannot help some ... view
• 8 Oct 2019 in National Assembly: will be addressed by the musaned. They have put in place a raft of laws, particularly to deal with employers who mistreat workers not only those who are from Kenya, but also worldwide. view