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    "content": "For the girl, the situation is even more desperate. After dropping out of school, she joins the mother in the family, assisting in ordinary house chores but she cannot do that for very long. While doing those chores, she is tempted and the next thing you hear is that she is pregnant. Once she gets her baby, the challenges become greater. Therefore, she is forced to go and find a job somewhere to sustain herself and her child. If she is not lucky, she ends up in the streets in Kisii Town or some other trading centres. She is now destroyed because she engages in prostitution or some other similar vices. As a country, we cannot allow such large numbers of our young people to get wasted. The option available is to give them an opportunity to train and acquire skills which will enable them to be employable or even to engage them in their own personal businesses as a way of earning a livelihood. The NYS is one of the most appropriate avenues. This institution should be asked to offer more courses. We know they do but they need to expand their programmes on the basis our Senator is proposing. They should offer simple courses like mechanical engineering, plumbing, electrical engineering in the areas where they can do electrical fittings, dress-making, driving and handling of motor vehicles or plant and equipment, carpentry and such other skills including training in security matters and even Information Communication Technology (ICT). Considering that there is an acute shortage of skilled personnel at the middle level, establishing more training centres by NYS would be the most welcome move, in my opinion. Therefore, I would support the establishment of those centres. The NYS should be asked to establish training centres in each county to be able to cater for and absorb these young people who otherwise get destroyed in their lives. Madam Temporary Speaker, we will be prepared as Kisii County to work with the National Youth Service (NYS) to establish a centre such as the one Sen. Elachi is proposing. I also support the view that once the youth have gone through that kind of training, both the county governments and the national Government should give them priority on recruitment. After all, they would have acquired the necessary skills and secondly, they would have had a change of attitude and mentality. They will also have acquired discipline in the NYS. I, therefore, think it is a very brilliant idea and I want to thank Sen. Elachi for bringing it up. I support."
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