Labour Cabinet Secretary Alfred Mutua has revealed that a total of 23 Kenyans were banned from travelling to Qatar for the foreign jobs that the government had secured on their behalf, just moments after they had successfully passed their interviews.
Speaking during the Jamhuri National Jobs fair at the Kenyatta International Conference Centre (KICC) in Nairobi on Wednesday, December 11, Mutua revealed that the candidates were rejected after it was established that they had been initially to the Middle East-based country and broke some local laws.
‘‘Some of the people that we hired, 23 of them, have been banned because they went to Qatar before and broke the law. Whatever you do follows you, some of them are drivers,’’ Mutua revealed.
According to the CS, the government had little to do in regard to their case after it was established that no efforts would salvage them.
The CS at the same time launched a scathing attack on critics of the government over the labour migration agreements between the government of Kenya and Qatar.
Mutua dismissed claims that the government had assumed the role of recruitment agencies by acting as a go-between with Qatar.
‘‘Some people are referring to this initiative as hearsay stories, they can mind their own business,’’ Mutua asserted.
‘‘These jobs are not ours as they belong to specific companies who come to us with specific requests, insisting on hiring Kenyans,’’ he added.
Additionally, he allayed fears that the government was soliciting funds unlawfully from the recruits, noting that it was the recruitment agencies that were legally soliciting for money.
‘‘The government cannot recruit people as that is done through agencies according to the law. It is them who know where to run for medical check-ups. These agencies must also charge some service fee on what they do,’’ the CS added.
The CS further asked those peddling rumours about the jobs program to stay away from the whole exercise, insisting that the government was not in the business of forcing anyone to travel for the opportunities.
The sentiments come against the backdrop of some accusations that had been ripe on social media of how some of the recruits were forced to take jobs that they had not interviewed for.
According to the CS, it was the preference of the recruiting companies to change some of the job roles for the recruits after their internal assessments.
Consequently, he said that the government would be sending some officials to accompany the more than 200 recruits to ensure that they are taken care of upon arrival in Qatar.
‘‘Nobody is forcing you to go, you make the choice. My job is to ensure that you don’t get conned in the process,’’ Mutua detailed.
Mutua also confirmed that 200 Kenyan police are in the process of leaving the country for Qatar, as the government finalizes clearing them.
He detailed that the officers would be leaving, according to a request from the Qatari government which the government agreed to.
‘‘The ambassador here can confirm that we just recruited 200 police officers for Qatar and they are just currently going through the checks before they can go,’’ he added.
- Genesis 1:28
“Then God blessed them, and God said to them, ‘Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth’”
This people in this government are used to very basic jobs thats all they can create. Mara driver, mboch, watchman… very low level stuff.
The regime is now a recruitment agency. Meffi
Hehe meanwhile the police officers in Haiti haven’t been paid in over 2 months.
Uproar After Govt Declares 500,000 Workers Redundant Over JSS
- by Frankline Oduor on Thursday, 12 December 2024
Thousands of support staff working for the government in secondary schools across the country are set to lose their jobs as part of new changes occasioned by the transition to Junior Secondary Schools (JSS) by learners across the country.
The looming job cuts came after the government began issuing redundancy letters to the affected staff indicating that their jobs cease effective January 1, 2025.
The Kenya Union Of Domestic Hotels Educational Institutions Hospitals & Allied Workers (KUDHEIHA) revealed that the government announced that they will be laying off the staff as part of new cost-cutting efforts.
This follows the domiciling of the Grade 9 learners within the Primary schools across the country.
Thousands of Kenyans turned up for 1,500 advertised jobs
Initially, the staff worked at secondary schools across the country and it has since been established that their services would be surplus to the requirement.
KUDHEIHA has instead asked the government to transfer the affected staff to other jobs within the learning institutions to avoid subjecting them to untold suffering.
KUDHEIHA Secretary General Albert Njeru urged the government to reconsider its decision before the schools open in January.
Njeru added that the government should also consider sending some of them on early retirement.
‘‘We are asking the government particularly the President on behalf of the more than 500,000 non-teaching staff to kindly intervene on this matter,’’ Njeru stated.
They are not aware of their fate as the Boards of Management are only giving notices of redundancy without any proper guidance from the Ministry,‘’ he added.
The decision to send the thousands of staff home is set to affect individuals such as laboratory technicians, and school secretaries among others.
‘‘Let us redeploy all the non-teaching staff to the JSS system because they understand it. Some of them are working as laboratory technicians, cleaners, and secretaries. They have what it takes to handle the roles,’’ Njeru urged.
Should the government go ahead with its decision on the thousands of workers, then such is likely to add to the other thousands of Kenyans who are currently facing hardships over job losses.
Arab’s are now having dominion over the fish of the sea, Kenyans, birds, chameleons, and all living things that move in Kenya.
Biacara ni biacara…modern day slavery every year bonobos from murima bring in 4B USD to Kasongo so lazima akule.
Budget 4Trn
Eat 1 Trn
Pay salaries 1Trn
Madeni 1Trn
Everyone else…go fuck yourselves
