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    "content": "Our mission in the United States of America (USA) needs to be geared towards our strategic interest in the US. Our mission in Uganda, which is our biggest trading partner, should be focused on trade, but our mission in Saudi Arabia must be focused on labour. We only have one officer, but we have other people there who in many respects will actually have a case to answer when this report is transmitted this afternoon after we vote on it. I do not like making blank allegations. Once this report is transmitted to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Amb. Macharia will have work to do. We have one of the best diplomats in this country at that station. We expect more from Amb. Ogego whom we know very well because he has done so well. He was in one of our most important stations in Washington DC for many years. We expect so much more from him and we know he has the passion. If he needs to change his staff, let him tell us. If he needs support of other consular services, let him tell us, but the embassy there cannot focus more on non-core issues of this country. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I am passionate about the National Employment Authority (NEA) because I consider it my baby. It came about by legislation I brought to Parliament in 2015. The NEA has the potential of making Kenya a proper supplier of skilled and even unskilled labour, but mostly skilled because we have many young people out there with degrees, diplomas and certificates who are disillusioned and disengaged. I have always said that the biggest threat to our security in this country is not the Al-Shabaab or AL Qaeda. It is millions of disillusioned and disengaged young people with qualifications, but without jobs who just see leaders zooming past with big guzzlers and giving them empty promises. By now, the NEA should have created proper job centres across the country to train young people, up skilling and packaging them to be able to get employment in different sectors. That is why in that board, we have representation from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and technical institutions, so that we can streamline the courses we teach our children. They should advise them what majority of the people are studying at the university. The employers in that board should inform them what the market needs or"
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