Dr. Bonny Khalwale

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• 24 Nov 2022 in Senate: The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only.A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate. view
• 24 Nov 2022 in Senate: This fat, greedy tom cats that own these buildings should die again and again for the kind of murder that they have committed in the midst of poor families who pay a meager Khs5,000 to Kshs10,000 a month and they have nowhere to go. Majority of these people come from Kakamega County. view
• 24 Nov 2022 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. Like those who have become before me, I would like to congratulate Sen. Veronica Maina, my Secretary General for this very well thought-out Motion. This is a serious matter. It is on record that between 57,000 and 100,000 Kenyans are in the Gulf States. I have taken time to understand why the former President of the Republic sat there for 10 years, heard nothing, did nothing and cared nothing about 100,000 Kenyans who were living in total slavery in the Gulf States. view
• 24 Nov 2022 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, this makes me remember the great Hon. Mwai Kibaki. I was in Parliament at the time when this problem picked up and Hon. Mwai Kibaki responded and actually issued a ban on this nonsense for the entire 2011 and 2012. However, when he exited, the grapevine had it that the agencies that make millions out of this business lobbied the handshake Government for the ban to be lifted and it was lifted. view
• 24 Nov 2022 in Senate: What statistics do we have today? You go the United Arab Emirates (UAE) the biggest culprit and we have more than 40,000 Kenyans. Qatar has 9,000, Saudi Arabia, 6,800; Oman, 500; Kuwait, 400 and Berlin the smallest number of people. How can a Government faced with these readily available facts just sit there and watch? As Senate, we must stand behind this Motion and do more. In fact, we should convert this Motion into a Bill. We can call it the Gulf Workers Bill and enact it into law so that we put standards to use in measuring the performance ... view
• 24 Nov 2022 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, on the issue of corruption, it is regrettable that even during the time of the ban, we still had some of these unscrupulous owners of agencies hiding young people to go to these places because they were paying. In fact, rumour has it, not really a rumour because we cannot speak rumours in this House, but it is in the public domain, information to the effect that a former presidential candidate owned such an agency. That is how low we have sunk. view
• 24 Nov 2022 in Senate: How the former candidate got clearance from the watchdog institutions under our Constitution, beats logic. view
• 24 Nov 2022 in Senate: The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only.A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate. view
• 24 Nov 2022 in Senate: We cannot blame the young people who go there. The statement they make by going is that we have failed as a State. When we campaigned. in our manifestos, we all promised the young people employment opportunities. That is why they go there. Madam Temporary Speaker, the day I was with you in Kigali. However, you came later after me because I was on an earlier flight. I was at the airport pretty early and I was shocked. Three aircrafts were going to the Middle East. Each one of them, upon enquiring information, which is always there for you to ... view
• 24 Nov 2022 in Senate: Now that these people have gone there, we should ask ourselves what they have gone to do. Since this Motion is speaking to the Government that I serve and lead in this country, I remind it that these young people are not going there to be professors, engineers, doctors or nurses the way our immigrants do when they go to the Western countries. Kenyans know that people go to the Western countries for the high skilled jobs while others go mainly because of reunification with families. For example, a son who went and became a professional and chose for the ... view