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    "content": "The whole idea with the NYS, especially at the county level, means that each county can be very focused with regard to the sort of skills and training that it wants to give to those particular constituents. I think that in such a programme, the technical aspects and the discipline aspect should not be lost and, may be, other skills, for example, nursing and a little bit of agriculture can go into that programme. That programme should take a much longer time. It should not be a programme of just about three months, because you can hardly learn enough within such a time. It is better to educate a person fully than to educate a person in half; then you are actually able to extract the best that you can extract from them. So, Mr. Speaker, Sir, I would like to thank Sen. Elachi, because I think this is a very, very important Motion. It is a Motion upon which our youth can begin to have hope, and we want to focus not just on the formal, but on the discipline bit of it. We could also use such an opportunity to teach our youth about patriotic values. If you ask a young person aged five years old to sing the National Anthem in Kiswahili, for example, I am not sure they will be able to sing that anthem to the third stanza. What are our patriotic values? What are we looking for in this country? The American educational system actually went backwards and began to train their youth about what these national values are and how they are going to hold them together. This is so critical now, especially with the sort of disunity that we are experiencing arising out of regional, ethnic, social-cultural differences. Now, more than ever before, it is important that we give consideration to really keep together the national appeal and ensure that we keep that appeal together in county governments. I think that role can best be played by the NYS. I think a strengthened, more co-ordinated and more collaborative NYS will make a big difference in this country. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to support this Motion. Thank you very much."
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