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"content": "grade of D in secondary school examinations; and there are those who do not pass and, hence, do not look for very high level jobs. There are many opportunities that we can open for them within our counties. For instance, we have been talking about making roads in our counties, through labour-intensive methods. We are spending so much money on the foreign contractors doing our roads in this country. If you look at the billions that we are allocating for roads, those are youth jobs that we are exporting to other countries. Europe did so many roads without any tarmac through the Julius Caesar technology, where they just arranged stones nicely and compacted them. Those are the Roman technology roads. They have tried that technology not long ago in Eritrea and the roads there are passable. Why do we not have the NYS disciplining the youth in various camps in our counties and then we allocate money to do rural roads using youth labour? Mr. Speaker, Sir, we are opening water projects, which is a major problem in all our counties. Why do we not get the youth to be the ones involved in laying the pipes? There are various other things that we can do with the youth who are disciplined and organized. I do not see why we do police recruitment across the country, among people who have no basic training. Why do we not recruit from the NYS? We should recruit youth from various counties, who have undergone NYS training. So, when you want to recruit, say, 100 policemen from Kisii, you should go to the NYS and find out whether there are 100 youth from Kisii, and recruit them. The same thing should apply to recruitment into the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF). Why do we recruit people into the KDF when we have people who are already semi-trained? That direct recruitment should stop, so that we can encourage people to go to the NYS, from where they will be recruited into the other disciplined Forces. Mr. Speaker, Sir, this frustration among the youth and graduates is real and we have seen it. The other day I met a Minister for Disaster Preparedness who had gone to Philippines because there are a lot floods and other things there. I asked him: “What skills are you going to gain in Philippines because in the interior of Africa we are unlikely to have massive floods? He said: “You know, mheshimiwa, you are correct.” The biggest disaster that we are going to have in Africa is really not a natural disaster, but a social disaster. Actually, he was a Ugandan and he told me that in Uganda, they have so many private universities which are coming up. I think there were 11 at that time. He said that there were MBA courses, where students were learning strategic management and good English. What will they do with these skills when they come out and find that there are no opportunities? They will be organizing demonstrations and destabilize systems. This is what we are training our youth for. So, the disaster that we should be preparing for is the one that we have created ourselves; the social disaster which will bring major political problems in the whole of Africa, because we are not giving people relevant skills. We are training people for unemployment. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I support this Motion because if we have NYS camps in every county, this will be a transition point where one will leave secondary school and instead of loitering and spending time in the village, you will learn some skills. What we need are engineers and artisans for the development of this country. Even in the Army itself, if we can enlarge the engineering component, so that we are able to make so many roads from our own Army engineers, instead of employing the foreign contractors, I think that we can use the money in this country better and make more roads. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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