Comments on: Kenya needs to safeguard citizens working abroad http://habarizanyumbani.jambonewspot.com/2009/12/25/kenya-needs-to-safeguard-citizens-working-abroad/ Visit www.jambonewspot.com.....your community website for more Thu, 29 Jul 2010 21:58:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Satwinder Rehal http://habarizanyumbani.jambonewspot.com/2009/12/25/kenya-needs-to-safeguard-citizens-working-abroad/#comment-583 Satwinder Rehal Wed, 13 Jan 2010 07:26:31 +0000 http://habarizanyumbani.jambonewspot.com/?p=1720#comment-583 Hi Tugemo, Spot on and thank for the response. The purpose of the article was to raise a concern equally about the overseas Kenyan worker (overseas/abroad includes even the one in next door Uganda and or South Sudan). I agree that there are local demands but at the same time one cannot ignore the global phenomena of the overseas worker as well. In the country there are existing avenues and systems that need to be enhanced to support the local worker but what about systems to cater for the overseas worker, be it the lay domestic worker or the contracted professional? Ultimately the buck stops with the government indeed. Rehal Hi Tugemo,

Spot on and thank for the response. The purpose of the article was to raise a concern equally about the overseas Kenyan worker (overseas/abroad includes even the one in next door Uganda and or South Sudan). I agree that there are local demands but at the same time one cannot ignore the global phenomena of the overseas worker as well. In the country there are existing avenues and systems that need to be enhanced to support the local worker but what about systems to cater for the overseas worker, be it the lay domestic worker or the contracted professional? Ultimately the buck stops with the government indeed.

Rehal

]]> By: tugemo http://habarizanyumbani.jambonewspot.com/2009/12/25/kenya-needs-to-safeguard-citizens-working-abroad/#comment-491 tugemo Sun, 27 Dec 2009 20:40:35 +0000 http://habarizanyumbani.jambonewspot.com/?p=1720#comment-491 This is a very good artical and a very well thought but the the true of the matter is;How can the Kenya government safeguard the intrests of Kenyans working abroad , since Our government has failed miserably even to take care and safeguard the common worker in Kenya. for instance the so called flower workers who work and lives in a very deprolable slave-type situation in kenya where the live on slave wages, work forced to work 12 hours a day, they are not allowed to go into or form trade unions to cater their intrests.and that is just a tip of the iceburg. On the other hand there are so many kenyans both men and women who works in Arab countries where by once they arrive there their Pass/ports are confisicated by their employer who cease to recognise the agreed agreements from Nairobi -first in nairobi they promise these poor kenyans live in paradise and once the come to their new land finds everything terrible wages are reduced to just slightly over what they used to get in kenya. however they complain goes to deaf ears , girls are exploted sexually men are flogged and if one dares protest the local police will break your neck. Kenya government is awere of the ongoing exploitations of kenya workers abroad must cant do anything. Such stories has appeared on our Kenya media but nothing happens. Let us blame the government of kenya and let us also put more pressure to organisations such as ILO and see whether we can change this terrible exploitation of workers in this modern times. This is a very good artical and a very well thought but the the true of the matter is;How can the Kenya government safeguard the intrests of Kenyans working abroad , since Our government has failed miserably even to take care and safeguard the common worker in Kenya. for instance the so called flower workers who work and lives in a very deprolable slave-type situation in kenya where the live on slave wages, work forced to work 12 hours a day, they are not allowed to go into or form trade unions to cater their intrests.and that is just a tip of the iceburg.
On the other hand there are so many kenyans both men and women who works in Arab countries where by once they arrive there their Pass/ports are confisicated by their employer who cease to recognise the agreed agreements from Nairobi -first in nairobi they promise these poor kenyans live in paradise and once the come to their new land finds everything terrible wages are reduced to just slightly over what they used to get in kenya. however they complain goes to deaf ears , girls are exploted sexually men are flogged and if one dares protest the local police will break your neck.
Kenya government is awere of the ongoing exploitations of kenya workers abroad must cant do anything. Such stories has appeared on our Kenya media but nothing happens. Let us blame the government of kenya and let us also put more pressure to organisations such as ILO and see whether we can change this terrible exploitation of workers in this modern times.

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