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    "content": "The President discussed issues of the region. He discussed the East African Community, our neighbours. As hon. Members are aware, I served for five years as an Assistant Minister for Foreign Affairs. I can assure you that the President, who was at one time the Minister for Trade and at another time, the Deputy Prime Minister; is quite versatile and capable of discussing and evaluating the issues affecting the region. I believe that he will participate fully on matters of the African Union and on matters of the East African Community. He will make sure that Kenya is engaged directly and indirectly in the conflict areas within our region. I hope that in diplomacy, he will make sure that the people he is going to appoint as our ambassadors, who will be vetted by this House, will be men and women of character, substance and integrity. I hope that the ambassadors he is going to appoint will be people who will give a reflection of Kenya as a country. Having worked in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs before, I know that there are many officers there who have become disgruntled because of being jumped on the queue either because the beneficiaries have relatives who are senior people in Government or they have the capacity to influence the promotion of somebody. I also hope that the President will visit the Diaspora and make sure that Kenyans who live out there, who bring in between Kshs18 billion and Kshs20 billion per year, will receive him and that he will give them solutions to some of the problems they are facing. I am very disappointed because Kenyans in the Diaspora did not vote in the last elections. I hope that this House will make it necessary and possible for members of the Kenyan community living in Diaspora to vote online or in whichever way we may want them to vote. They were very disappointed that they did not vote in the last elections. The President mentioned that he would want to make sure that the amount of money that goes to Recurrent Expenditure in our country is reduced and more resources directed towards development. He said that we must keep the public wage bill at check. We agree. The only thing I would like to say is that we need a complete audit of all Government Departments. We need to know how many vehicles they---"
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