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    "id": 1368296,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1368296/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kuria",
    "speaker_title": "The Cabinet Secretary for Public Service, Performance and Delivery Management",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Moses Kuria",
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    "content": " Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, as I have said, the policy is currently being worked on. We have a team that is working on both the policy and putting up proper structures for setting up of NYS enterprises. This effort is being led by none other than H.E the President, the Presidential Economic Team, my Ministry and the National Treasury. As we speak, we have also set up a Committee of 11 Principal Secretaries (PSs). Each PS is indicating the jobs available in each State Department. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we have had some success in agriculture, as I have mentioned, in irrigation in the dams as the Senator has mentioned and in offering security services in our buildings. This is a very promising and exciting time for our youth. The policy that we are working on in conjunction with putting up the framework for affirmative action along the lines of AGPO, is going to go a long way in ensuring that through the National Youth Service (NYS), we can absorb many younger people, impart them with the right skills, give them some meaningful work and ultimately release them to the market in a way that they can be more employable, or even to create some entrepreneurs out of them so that they can also employ other young people. The question of the upward mobility in the NYS is a very pertinent issue. We are working on mobility in several ways. You remember there was an instance where the Kenya Defence Forces ring-fenced 300 positions to be filled up by graduates from the NYS and 10,000 of them turned up for the interview. We were required to bring in police and KDF to maintain security. That was a pointer to the situation as it is. Right now we are sensitizing people from the security sector to use the NYS as a benchmark for career progression when they are recruiting."
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