Musalia Mudavadi

All parliamentary appearances

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• 9 Oct 2024 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I thank the Senator for Nandi for reminding me. We cannot have labour attaches in all the missions. It is all a question of the resources and assessing the demand in a specific area. However, under the consular services, we are trying to provide a holistic response, advice and support to issues that may be labour-related. view
• 9 Oct 2024 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, the only department that would deal with this is the Immigration Department. As I had indicated because it was raised earlier, we may need to have some specifics on some of this so that jointly with the Immigration Department, identify the bottlenecks and make this a little smoother. If the hon. Senator has some time, I would not mind having conversation or details on the specific cases that she is talking about. I thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. view
• 10 Jul 2024 in Senate: Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I do not know whether I am audible. view
• 10 Jul 2024 in Senate: Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. view
• 10 Jul 2024 in Senate: Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. On the first question--- view
• 10 Jul 2024 in Senate: Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I wish to state that there are thousands of Kenyans in the Gulf countries who are employed in various sectors. view
• 10 Jul 2024 in Senate: Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I was saying that there are thousands of Kenyans in the Gulf countries, and I will tabulate the data available. We have in total over 400,000 Kenyans in the Gulf States tabulated as follows; Saudi Arabia, there are 310,266 Kenyans. In Qatar, 66,025; United Arab Emirates (UAE), 23,000; Bahrain, 8,000; Oman, 5,392; Kuwait, 3,515; Iran, 200 and Iraq; 150. The total record we have as of to date is 416,548. I wish to further state as follows: Kenyans in these territories exhibit high movement between various Gulf States. The numbers given, therefore, constitute periodic statistics ... view
• 10 Jul 2024 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, the second question was how many Kenyans have lost their lives working in the Gulf states from 2002 to date? The records that we have show that the total number of Kenyans who have lost their lives in the Gulf region is 316. The breakdown is as follows: Saudi Arabia, 166; Qatar, 58; UAE, 51; Iraq, 25; Bahrain, 10; Kuwait, six; Oman, nil and Iran, nil. The total is 316. On aspect (c) of the Question, the issue is what support the Government provides to families of Kenyans who die overseas and if I could provide details ... view
• 10 Jul 2024 in Senate: 2024 in Saudi Arabia. The mission established that at the time of the death, the deceased was employed on a valid contract. The mission, also through the recruitment agencies, established the contacts of the deceased's family and obtained a post-mortem report to establish the cause of death and preparation of the body for repatriation home. The repatriation of the body took long since the post-mortem report indicated that the cause of death was suicide and investigations were ongoing which affirmed the same. For this reason, the employer who otherwise is supposed to assist with the cost of repatriation declined to ... view
• 10 Jul 2024 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, I wish to state that we can avail that information based on the records that we have within the embassies because we are talking of - to be precise - 416,058 individuals. We can work on having this brought to the Senate. I can only appeal on one issue that as we give the identities, you will need to guide us on whether we will be breaching some aspects of the data identity issues by tabling all the 416,058. That is the only question, but we are prepared to give this list. view