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"content": "university if he wanted to because he was a very brilliant boy. But he went back home, joined his father who was an alcoholic and started selling chang’aa. We thought we had lost him and then I persuaded him later on to go to NYS and luckily he accepted. When he went there, he trained as a mechanical engineer. What amused me was that the next time he came to my office, he was in his NYS uniform. When he opened my office door, I was ready to give him another blow, but when he came in, he stood at attention and saluted me, and I laughed. I said: Kirigi, these people have really trained you well; you can now salute me? And he said: Yes, Sir. I knew that they had done something to him. He went ahead and got his mechanical engineering diploma and did the national examinations and sooner or later, he was training other people and he joined the Kenya Breweries. When he died, he was actually in charge of maintaining the equipment at the Kenya Breweries. I cried at his funeral because I had lost somebody who had really changed because of what they gave him at the NYS. I do not know what these people do to the young people, but they drill patriotism and discipline in them. For the first time, young people feel they are Kenyans and they want to serve Kenya. I do not want it to be optional, but compulsory so that every Kenyan goes through this course. In fact, in the last Government, I remember Hon. (Dr.) Otuoma who was in charge of the youth suggested that he should be given an okay to increase the number of the youths joining NYS for training to about 10,000 every year. I asked him whether he thought it was feasible and he told me that it was feasible because the youth can grow their own food. They grow their own maize and rice, keep their own animals and milk their own cows and can feed themselves. The only little thing you give them is uniform. If there is land, you give them the land, if there is some irrigation to be done, you facilitate the irrigation, but they will look after themselves. When they come out of there, they are rehabilitated. Madam Temporary Speaker, I remember when Hon. Maitha was the Minister for Local Government, he collected all the street boys, herded them to some place in Gikomba and put them in some hall, but later on, got them absorbed into the NYS and some of them are now drivers, carpenters, mechanics and doing all sorts of things. At least, they got some skills. I have been telling my people whenever I get the opportunity that somebody who has a skill never goes hungry. Even if it is a skill of repairing a puncture, you will have something to eat. But however good you may be in speaking, like some of the youth we use during political campaigns, I cannot talk to them when I get a puncture. I talk to the guy who knows how to repair it. This will also bring national integration. Do not make this a county affair because if you make it a county affair, then you mean that you will only take the youth from that county and you will train them in that one facility. That will not give us what we want in this country. Do what the national Government is doing with the national schools. For example, at Mbita National School, the children admitted from my former constituency are not more than five and there are over 200 students. They have been admitted from the Coast, Turkana, Marsabit and all over. I thought they would run away, but most of them, after mixing with others from other parts of the country, are so excited about the national discourse that they get, that they do not want to run away. In fact, they do not want to 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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