The Government is working to root out all rogue diaspora jobs agents to ensure prospective job applicants are not swindled of their money.
The Director General of the International conferences, Media Events, & Public Communications in the Ministry of Foreign and Diaspora Affairs Amb Isaiah Kabira said the Ministry of labour will streamline the sector to ensure only genuine agencies are operating in the country.
He however advised prospective job seekers and their families to only pay to agencies they are sure about to avoid being conned.
Amb Kabira was speaking at the Embu Moi Stadium during the first day of a three-day Mt East Jobs Fair that opened its doors on Wednesday.
More than 3000 youths turned up during the first day of the fair organized by the State Departments for Labour, Diaspora Affairs and Technical and Vocational Training (TVET) together with the County Government of Embu.
The fair brought together Diaspora job agents and TVET institutions officials from government institutions who sensitized the youths on what they need to do to secure jobs abroad.
Embu Woman Representative Njoki Njeru challenges the youth to get in-demand skills to be able to get the jobs abroad.
She said it would be foolhardy for anyone to go out there without marketable skills, adding that such people were the ones that ended up suffering abroad.
She pointed out that besides training Kenyans to acquire desired skills, the country’s TVET institutions had a program to certify skilled workers who lacked papers.
By Steve Gatheru
