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    "id": 1368271,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kuria",
    "speaker_title": "The Cabinet Secretary for Public Service, Performance and Delivery Management",
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        "legal_name": "Moses Kuria",
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    "content": " Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir and the Senator for Nyeri County. Indeed, we have pronounced ourselves on the new direction for the NYS. The re-engineering agenda for the NYS, which we are undertaking, is premised on four key pillars. The first pillar is the paramilitary training and regimentation. This is important because we have to impact our young people with the right social and patriotic wiring so that they become good citizens capable of driving the country forward. Currently, we have 10,000 service men and women serving under the paramilitary service within the National Youth Service. By the end of this financial year, we will recruit 20,000 youth. In the Financial Year 2024/2025, we will increase the number to 40,000. In the Financial Year 2025/2026, we will recruit 60,000 youth. Ultimately, we will start recruiting 100,000 youth by the year 2027. Before I finish discussing the first pillar, I will highlight the issue of regimentation. This is putting the youth under clusters just like it happens within our disciplined forces; the police and the military. This will aid socialization and working together in positive behaviour and patriotic angling as we prepare them to be better citizens. The second pillar of our re-engineering agenda within NYS is a contribution towards national service. We have many opportunities within the Government where our youth can be used to offer the services. Tomorrow, we will be in Kitale town, Trans Nzoia County with the Cabinet Secretary for Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries and our NYS. We have up to 6,000 acres of maize that are ready for harvesting that would have otherwise gone to waste from the Agriculture Development Corporation. Five million kilogrammes of seed for the Kenya Seed Company would have gone to waste. Tomorrow, we will visit the area with hundreds of youths who will harvest the maize. In the process, we will save money, time and resources while helping the country in terms of food security. We are coming from a season of hunger. The reason I am giving this example is to show you where you can expect to find the green NYS uniform. You will find them in our farms, guarding our offices, planting trees, cleaning our markets and in areas where we do not have experience like mining and blue economy. We want to engage our youth to offer services to other Government departments as part of the NYS. We cannot achieve all this unless we impact our youth's vocational and technical knowledge. Our third pillar is on vocational and technical skills, which we are going to accelerate. We will train them in areas where we expect them to offer national service. Finally, there is the issue of commercialisation of NYS. The county Government, private sector, and Members of Parliament in the National Assembly through the National Government Constituencies Development Fund (NG-CDF) could partner with the NYS through the NYS enterprises which will offer the same services that the private sector is offering. The only difference is that we can get these jobs on a Government to"
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