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"content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. We are talking about development; Vision 2030 and Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). We want to develop this country. However, we cannot talk about development if we are doing nothing about our youths, if we are not preparing our youth to face the challenges, if we are seeing our youths engaging in anti-social activities, if we are seeing our youths killing each other; whether in the name of illegal groups or cattle rustlers. I want to support the idea from my brother, Sen. (Prof.) Lonyangapuo, that when it comes to recruitment, priority should be given to those communities that lag behind in terms of training and employment opportunities. In some countries, there is a policy that each and every family should have somebody working somewhere in the Government or in other organisation, so that not many employees are from one family and another family is starving. In that way, we will ensure that every family has at least somebody to support them. If we are going to recruit the youth, I would urge that the recruitment should be done right to the village level. Other arms of Government recruit at county level, perhaps, at the district level. However, I think that in this case, let us not complicate it very much because we are not looking for experts or scientists. Let us leave it to the village elders to identify because we now have structures in the devolved systems. We have the county, sub county, ward and village level. Let us allocate slots to the villages; let them be recruited and identified there, who is from a poor family, to be able to gain from this. When they graduate, let us follow up to ensure that they are at least in gain-full employment or they are self-employed, not only in Government, but in other sectors of our society. That is why I do not want it legislated that it will be for security forces. The NYS should be for all organizations that seek to recruit; whether they are private security companies, industries, construction firms or for security, but other jobs as well. I remember several years ago, there were a programmes called Kenyanization and Tripartite Agreements; where occasionally, perhaps, after three years, employers would be called and asked to recruit additional staff by consensus. They were able to take so many youths by agreement. We are not saying that we should force every company to take people, but we can persuade them to take our youth who currently have no jobs. Madam Temporary Speaker, this is a very good idea. We no longer have middle level colleges. They were all converted into universities. I have heard what my colleague from West Pokot said because he is benefiting from Kitale Technical Institute. This is a matter that we are currently debating and the county public participation will talk about it. We are looking at all options to ensure that we have a university in Trans Nzoia County. I do not know whether the Cabinet Secretary for Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries together with the ADC can allocate some land to us to start a university. 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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