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    "content": "relation with and engage the UN more towards ensuring that our young trained Kenyan military personnel get opportunities to participate in peacekeeping. The role of peacekeepers in the whole world is known and recognized. Having known that the challenges that human beings face are immense and can only be solved by our participation and we also recognize that countries that are peace loving like Kenya must come forward to stand with other countries that have challenges in order to bring peace and tranquility in those nations. Mr. Speaker, Sir, Kenya has played a crucial role in East Africa and Africa as a whole in offering our personnel in peace keeping missions. Like the Mover mentioned, as early as the 1970s when we began to participate, our personnel have participated and gone to so many places. The latest one is where we are in the neighbouring country of Somalia. Kenyans have done a good job judging from what the KDF has done. They have done us proud because of the level of participation and engagement that they have brought forward. It is upon us to elevate the kind of engagement and the way we work with the UN in making sure that our presence is fully recognized at the UN headquarters and all over the world. Many of our people should be working. The challenges we have in South Sudan, and this Senate recently discussed and approved the request by the President to send peacekeepers to South Sudan, it gives us an edge in making sure that we lead in bringing peace and order in some of the areas that we have these challenges. We should call upon the national Government to engage at a higher level with the UN so that our presence is fully elevated more than what we have today. Looking at the number of graduates that we churn out of our colleges and universities - many of them are supposed to go for training so that they can work with our defence forces, it gives us a lot of advantage if we can engage with the UN. It is a privilege to have most of our people get jobs. It also makes us get more exposed and honoured as a country if we participate at that level all the time whenever we are required. Mr. Speaker, Sir, lastly, we also know the kind of training and upbringing that Kenyan youth and people go through that we need to engage and therefore, carry the best that we normally have as Kenyans in participating to bring peace and order in some of the countries that have challenges. This is a timely Motion and I would like to urge my colleagues to support it. I beg to second."
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