Nominated Senator Gloria Orwoba has called for the firing of Labour Cabinet Secretary Alfred Mutua to be held accountable for tolerating the increasing rates of job scams.
Speaking during a Senate session on Wednesday, April 2, the Senator claimed that the CS is incompetent since he is unable to suppress the metamorphosing trend and that President William Ruto should immediately dismiss him.
According to Orwoba, some Kenyans have also ended up being conned at the office of the Ministry of Labour as they seek job opportunities abroad.
"I want to call upon the president to fire the cabinet secretary of labour because he knows what is happening, and he knows exactly why we are upset," she said.
"This person is incompetent, and his interests have been seen because he is not there for the people of Kenya, and I want to say this with all fairness: let him go home," she added.
Orwoba has further castigated other leaders who claim that Kenyans should be 'wise enough' not to fall into the traps of the scammers and emphasised that many jobless Kenyans are desperate for jobs.
"How can you start telling Kenyans that be wise, don't participate in that? The government is supposed to be for the people and should stand for Kenyans. So when a government initiative on labour is put out, you cannot expect that Kenyans will say don't touch that because there could be a possibility that it is a con, that is victim blaming," she said.
Orwoba's sentiments come days after hundreds of Kenyans stormed a job agency office in Nairobi on Wednesday, March 27, to claim back millions they paid for jobs abroad.
Some of the Kenyans claimed that they had already travelled to foreign countries, including Mauritius, for the promised jobs by the company, only to be left stranded.
Additionally, many victims, who had paid up to nearly Ksh500,000 to the company for the jobs, said that they had not yet been placed in any job abroad.
“I gave him Ksh423,000 to work in Mauritius, but he was not allowed in. He was told he had been given a tourist visa,” said one of the victims.
The company is located at Biashara Plaza in Nairobi and is present on most social media sites, including Facebook, where it has 1.4k followers on its page.
