Taskforce unearths 390 suspicious labour recruitment agencies

Labour CS Alfred Mutua during a media briefing on the crackdown and arrest of fraudulent recruitment agencies and individuals involved in illegal labour mobility in Kenya. [Benard Orwongo, Standard]

There are up to 390 suspicious recruitment agencies currently under probe, it has emerged.

This is according to the findings of a taskforce formed in 2025 to probe the agencies by listening to grievances and investigating fraud in the labor mobility program.