The Ministry of Labour is now seeking partnership with the Office of the Director of Public Prosecution and the Directorate of criminal Investigations 9DCI) to crackdown on rogue job agencies.
Cabinet Secretary Alfred Mutua said the partnership will play a key role in addressing the growing growing menace of rogue individuals and agencies preying on innocent Kenyans desperate for job opportunities abroad.
In a meeting attended by Attorney General Dorcas Oduor, tDCI boss Mohamed Amin and DPP Renson Ingonga among other government officials, Mutua said they deliberated on coordinated strategies to decisively deal with the criminal enterprise that is undermining the gains made in expanding safe and legal labour migration opportunities for Kenyan youth.
The CS said as result, they agreed on establishment of a Multi-Agency Taskforce to investigate and prosecute the fraudulent actors swiftly and thoroughly. "We are deeply concerned by the rising number of cases where unscrupulous individuals have been masquerading as licensed recruitment agents, defrauding our people under the false promise of overseas employment, only to disappear with their hard-earned money and shatter their dreams," said Mutua.
