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    "content": "so on. However, at the last moment, his candidature was withdrawn and substituted with Dr. Julius Gikonyo Kiano. Because of that, we lost the position. Mr. Speaker, Sir, since Independence, many countries like Nigeria, Ghana and Mali have had more than five or six people being appointed at the level of Under-Secretary General of the United Nations (UN). If you go to the superintendent positions within the structures of the UN, you will find that Kenyans are nowhere to be seen. If you go through the inspectorate agencies, you will find that the same story applies. Why is this? This is because Kenya has not put in place a proper strategy for campaigning for her nationals to get into those positions. If you go to other countries, you will find Kenyans working in very high positions due to their competence. However, when it comes to international situations, we are not there because we lack the strategy, lobbying and so on. I would have liked, had I been consulted on this - since I am very passionate on this and I was away last night - I would have wanted that we put in place structures, mechanisms, strategies for lobbying for our people to be in various key positions within, not only the UN but also the African Union (AU) system. That is the area where we are lacking. I do not know whether we can somehow amend this Motion to reflect that, rather than to be very limited. I tried to amend but the aim of this Motion is; “the Senate urges the National Government to strengthen relations with and engage the UN more with a view to ensuring that many young trained Kenyan military personnel get more opportunities to participate in peacekeeping missions.” The aim is to get more military personnel to get involved in UN operations. I do not know whether, according to the Standing Orders, we can change this to focus on Kenyans getting more job opportunities within the UN system."
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