Kiambu County Women representative Anne Nyokabi Gathecha has asked the government to revoke all licences to agents taking Kenyans to work in the Middle East.
She says this revocation should be in place until all necessary legislations to guide the exercise are put in place.
Gathecha, who is also a member of parliamentary committee on foreign relations, says that worrying statistics show that Kenyans have either died or are currently working under deplorable conditions in those countries.
“All visas being issued to Kenyans to go and work in Arab countries need to be stopped forthwith so that we can investigate what is going on. We cannot let our children keep going only to come back in coffins,” says Gathecha.
Early this month, Kabete MP George Muchai, and who is a member of the labour committee in parliament promised that his committee will take up the matter and start investigations to ensure that Kenyans working anywhere outside the country are safe.
“The biggest problem in some of these countries is the police chiefs where foreigners should take refuge when they have problems with their employers. They are the people who are orchestrating the vice leading to the suffering of many,” said Muchai.
He added that the labour committee will table a bill in parliament which contains well spell out regulations on foreign contracts among other matters.