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    "content": "at the Act as it were, you will see that the key agenda was to ensure that young people can join and move on to join universities. If you remember, many people who sat the “A Levels” benefited at that time. However, today, we are talking about the 21st Century. We want to ensure, now that we have county governments, every county benefits from this institution. The institution is broad and has branches all over the country. It can take care of every county even without it being established in every county, but by ensuring that those who are recruited come from every county. The amendment of Section 13 comes in to ensure equity and to guide the institution. Therefore, we will be inserting the following new section immediately after sub section 1; “the service shall have a branch in each county.” It will be important for us to number the existing sub section 1 as sub section 1(a). It is also important to note that I will bring in a new amendment that will ensure that the young people who join the NYS are also given a chance to join the disciplined forces. The reason for this is that when you look at our situation in terms of cohesion and the challenges we are facing, you will see that since 2005, we have had divisions in the way we view ourselves. We have polarized this country. However, we believe that the young people do not think about their ethnicity. This is a new group that can bring about cohesion in our country. We should ensure that if, indeed, I come from Western and I am given an opportunity to go and live in central province with my brothers, so that I learn and understand their culture. This will also give an opportunity to others to move to Nyanza and, therefore, to bring the cohesion that we have been crying about. Today, we face a dilemma in the recruitment of the police. If we can amend and bring in the new clause, the first priority would be the young people who have completed their studies at the NYS and who are willing to be engaged in the disciplined forces. The discipline forces should use the NYS as a basis for recruitment as they look for others. This should not limit those who are genuine. It is important to know that while we do all this, we should have a crop that is joining the disciplined forces that can appreciate patriotism. Secondly, we have those who are committed and willing to serve their country regardless of the challenges they are facing. That does not mean that those who have joined do not feel the same. They do. In that training, they will become better and stronger. They will also go through challenges that will sharpen them. This Bill brings in the background information of the NYS that was established in September, 1964. This was done through an Act of Parliament and falls in our laws, Chapter 208, of the Laws of Kenya. This was charged as a function of training young citizens. The institution has also achieved a lot in developing skills, manpower, creating self sustaining independent youth and creating and informed society. When you look at those who went through the NYS in those early days, you will see a big difference in them. They went through challenges that they appreciate. This was something that parents did not like. They felt that their children were being taken to suffer. However, to date, I believe that wherever the parents are, they would wish that all children go through the same. There are many case studies of this. Israel has the same institutions that it uses to take young people to volunteer to serve as they wait to join the defence forces or to join 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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