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    "speaker_name": "November 6, 2014 SENATE DEBATES 40 Sen. (Prof.) Lonyangapuo",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I rise to join my colleagues in supporting this Bill. In the same vein, I would like to congratulate the Mover, Sen. Elachi, for her thinking at the right time. There are a lot of innovative ways and changes taking place at the NYS. We need to come up with a Bill that can look at the country and the changes which are taking place there. It is four years since we got a new Constitution which created 47 counties out of the original central system. Therefore, we have 47 county governments in which the youth, as anticipated in this Bill, are growing in number. We have many youths that need to be considered and tapped. This Bill looks at introducing the amendment in Section 13 of the National Youth Service Act, where it is proposing to insert this new subsection which says that the NYS shall have a branch in each county. This is laudable. When the law comes into effect, it means that the NYS will have to budget, working in consultation with every county government to get land in every county for which sufficient land is going to be set aside for the purpose of building a proper branch for the NYS. We are not going to call it a county youth service; it is a branch of the NYS going by the names that will be identified from that county. There was a time in my county when we had a youth service camp called Lomut Youth Service, somehow it disappeared. I do not know what happened, yet they had come with a noble idea of planting fruits in Kerio Valley region. All the beautiful and nice mango fruits that were enjoyed those days and to date were introduced by the NYS at that time. In 1986, the Government came up with an idea of making the NYS commercially viable by introducing the Nyayo buses and so many other ventures that took place. There is nothing new that we are doing here. We are just improving on what had come at that time. My only worry is that as we are bringing the changes that we have seen being brought by Director Githinji who worked as an Under-Secretary in the Ministry of Tourism. The question is: Are the people working with him reformed? Are they the same people who brought down that brilliant idea that we are revisiting again several years later? It calls upon the implementers of the policies that have been introduced by the new Government in NYS that they must also reform. They have been given new buses and new machinery from China. I hope they went to China to train so that they can manage the machinery. It is important that a comprehensive syllabus is introduced to manage the system. In 1988 and before it was compulsory to go through NYS, there was no room for anybody to say no even if one was sick or had an accident. I am very happy to note that after three months of intensive training, almost everybody came out very healthy due to the rigorous training. Due to the challenges of sicknesses that Kenyans are going through because of our lifestyles, it is proper that we subject our bodies to rigorous training. Madam Temporary Speaker, there was also patriotic training during that time. Therefore, I am proposing that when they are preparing the syllabus they should look at 1965 documents that introduced NYS. They intended to make NYS a place where nationalism and patriotism was going to be imparted to the youth. As they mature and go to work, the youth became the model person we want. The kind of training at the NYS was of a disciplined nature. There is somebody who trained us at NYS and it was very 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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