A skills database to help Kenyans in the diaspora to get jobs in the national and county governments is set to be launched.
Already, 2,000 Kenyans professionals living and working abroad have uploaded their resumes, according to the president of Kenya Diaspora Alliance (KDA) Shem Ochuodho. Ochuodho said KDA plans to register 10,000 professionals next year on the database that will act as a basis for pitching for various job opportunities in the public service.
“In the last one year, diaspora Kenyans sent home KSh300 billion being the second-highest foreign income earner after tea. We have professional skills and experience earned abroad that could benefit our country economically,” said Ochuodho.
Ochuodho, who spoke during the just concluded 2019 diaspora convention in Nairobi, indicated that many Kenyans working in various sectors abroad had expressed their wish to return home to share their skills.
He hailed the nomination of Kenyan-American, Mwende Mwinzi as Kenya’s ambassador to South Korea, saying it is a welcome gesture for the diaspora community.
During the summit, various speakers called for the establishment of a fully-fledged diaspora department to help scrutinize local companies that seek to offer Kenyans in the diaspora services and products. This, they said, will help to curbs incidents in which briefcase companies con the diaspora.
“We are in close talks with the Capital Markets Authority, Nairobi Securities Exchange and Central Bank of Kenya towards the introduction of more financial products that the diaspora can invest in such as green bonds and unit trusts, among others,” said Ochuodho.
KDA is currently in discussions with US-based Africa Diaspora Business Community, which has expressed interest in investing in solar farms, waste management, and agribusiness.
@mamau- Go ahead pal, make…
@mamau- Go ahead pal, make your day!
this is a freaking insult,…
this is a freaking insult, it is almost like diasporas are not Kenyans, see mwinzi and miguna, we are treated worse than foreigners in our own country…getting a job in your own country has become newsworthy, the only way out of this mess is another maumau and nothing else. We have had numerous constitutional changes, referendums and now BBI but corruption still thrives. We just need to rid ourselves of this crop of politicians once and for all.
What is happening here is a…
What is happening here is a concerted joint effort by the politicians and those who voted to elect them. The voters are gullible and hungry of kitu kidogo, and the politicians are hell bent to steal billions. This makes a toxic concoction of immeasurable harm to the country!
You are most welcome to come home if you are in the diaspora. But please remember those you left behind are now well educated too and will compete with you in whatever job category you apply.
Going back to the bush to stage liberation combat will not help you. You just need to have a stern message against corruption and the embezzlement of resources.
Use that simple message to mobilize the ordinary Kenyans. They will quickly identify with you if you are genuine.
Remember you are fighting some locally brewed neocolonialists in high places. They will use every weapon in their arsenal to mute your concerns. They will try to buy you with butterfly material things of no noble name. The decision is solely yours whether to stay put or be bought!
we are not afraid of…
we are not afraid of competition, whoever is more qualified should get the job. while you are waiting and waiting the thieves are stealing and stealing, we are at a juncture where going into the bushes is the only quick and sure way forward
Ochuodho is an old Kenyan…
Ochuodho is an old Kenyan politician! Whatever he is promising here sounds like a bunch of ”kakulacha“ pie She own in the faces of those naive and not nearly well informed. He is a politician who is willing to promise a bunch of half baked information with very little to show.
University graduates in Kenya are tarmacking day and night looking for non-available jobs. As a matter of fact 7 out of 10 graduates are unemployed and are currently doing odd jobs to survive.
In simple logics, are those companies in Kenya to employ the local graduates who are of higher academic caliber or are they to look for diaspora graduates at an exorbitant cost and self deceptive high headedness simply because they consider themselves to be a fourth generation of shiny briefcase expatriates?
Everything Ochuodho says about the Africa Diaspora Business community wants to initiate in Kenya have already been initiated in large scale either by the government or private companies.
The level of competition is high with these start up companies. Most of them are taping workers from the huge local job market. I can give many more tangible examples of the job market and life in general here at home.
Ochuodho keep on capitalizing on the money sent to Kenya by those in the diaspora. What he cannot tell you is who receives the money, how the money is used, and did he negotiate with the receiving institutions to cut down on the cost of sending the money. Who benefits from the taxes levied on the diaspora money received?
Ochuodho – please be truthful and kindly stop having Diaspora start day dreaming about the hypothetical Utopia enterprises in Kenya! Tell them the truth of what is happening on the ground simply because that naked truth will eventually set your conscience free!
Ochuodho is speaking like a politician! Politicians rarely tell you the truth. And when caught, the story automatically acquires a newly invented turn of events – mostly more unsubstantiated mess! .
Diaspora be extra careful what those who visit Kenya and mostly spend their entire visit in Ole Sereni and other high places tell you. Ask Ochuodho if he set his foot in Luo Nyanza (did he visit the constituency he used to be an MP), and how did he get there, and did he interacted with the local commoners (the foot soldiers of Migori and Karachuonyo)! You have to be very careful of guy whose main interest is a political come back after 2022 through the diaspora podium!
County governments do not…
County governments do not pay! If you can stay for 3 months without pay, get a job with county government.
It is Kenyans who are living…
It is Kenyans who are living in Kenya who need jobs. College graduates cannot get jobs that is why most of them are committing suicide.
It’s a kill list.
Otherwise,…
It’s a kill list.
Otherwise, they should do a database of Kenya jobless youth in Kenya.
The Kenya government is…
The Kenya government is looking for a way to monitor, track , steal and kill Kenyans in diaspora.
Avoid such nonesense by people living in denial.
The Kenyan government is a criminal organization that hates Kenyans.
What you have created is a…
What you have created is a database for the Kenya government to print out a kill list.
It seems some people cannot accept the reality the Kenyan government is full of thieves, killers , genocidal maniacs hiding behind tribalism and rapists.
Stop this Nonesense of pretending the Kenya government is a government that cares about Kenyans.
You just want Kenyans to be rounded up and killed by the kenya government.