Kenya to send 250,000 Kenyans to work abroad each year; Ruto
President says the government intends to send 250,000 Kenyans to work abroad each year as part of its job creation strategy
President says the government intends to send 250,000 Kenyans to work abroad each year as part of its job creation strategy.
Speaking on Wednesday at Uhuru Gardens during the 59th International Labour Day celebrations, Ruto said the move is also aimed at enhancing the country’s remittances from abroad.
To actualise this, the president said, the country has signed a number of bilateral agreements with several countries.
“From last year to this year, we have increased our remittances by about $50 billion, and it is my intention that in the next five years, we should take our remittances from $4 billion to $10 billion.”
He said his administration is keen to reorganise labour laws.
Ruto said there are some 140,000 young people who were not working last year but are now working this year in the housing programme.
We have another 120,000 young people in our Tvets, ICT hubs who are earning salaries, he said.
Ruto said the pace at which jobs are created in the country is lower than the rate at which new workers enter the job market.
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“Every year, 1 million workers enter the job market in Kenya while only 200,000 are absorbed into formal jobs both in the private and public sector.”
Speaking at the same event, Labour CS Florence Bore announced that 30,237 job seekers had been profiled as of April this year.
Bore said the job seekers have been profiled in the National Employment Authority Information Management System for the Skills Inventory.
“Government launched the National Skills Inventory to map out the skills of all Kenyans seeking employment to enhance employability locally and abroad,” Bore said.
The CS said in its pursuit to address the high unemployment rate, the government has continued to engage with other governments that have a high demand for labour through initiating negotiations of bilateral labour agreements or memoranda of understanding to provide for safe and orderly labor migration.
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