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"content": "misused these young men and women for purposes of doing donkey work and not for what I call matters of national importance. The drafters of our Constitution, in Article 189 contemplated relationships between two Governments. Therefore, the notion that there exist two separate Governments, both at the national and county level should be removed; first of all, by using the amendments as proposed by Sen. Elachi. Article 189(2) of the Constitution says:- “Government at each level, and different governments at the county level, shall co-operate in the performance of functions and exercise of powers and, for that purpose, may set up joint committees and joint authorities.” We want to see the NYS building bridges, giving out food, helping hospitals, clearing roads where there are roadblocks and removing any impediments you see at counties. We have been seeing them at Presidential functions or passing out parades where they carry very good looking spades. However, those spades should be put to work at counties. Therefore, in amending Section 13, Sen. Elachi is proposing that the word “branches” be amended to read “counties.” I propose that in the subsidiary legislation where the units and sub units are contained, we should not just have units in Nairobi, Mombasa, Gilgil, Yatta and sub units in Tumaini Water Falls Harambee Yatta, Ol Donyo Sabuk, Yatta; Shimba Hills, Tsavo; North Kinangop, Karura; Gatundu and in Yala, because that does not represent this country. In amending Section 13, I propose that we delete the section and say there should be units set up by the national Government at every county level. This Senate has already passed legislation as to which towns county governments should be sitting. Therefore, the seven units where we are training people in this country is one of those amendments that we should go for so that we have clear policies to show that the NYS is for this nation. We have contemplated in the Constitution that the national Government and county governments shall co-operate for purposes of matters of national importance. There cannot be anything of more national importance than matters of security, health, helping the communities and helping in very mundane things. After reading the NYS Act, under the regulations, there are no other persons or other disciplined forces better trained than these people. Our predecessors at the universities were all trained under the NYS. That has not continued and you can see the result of not having our university students at the NYS. This discipline, going into our youth, is one of those things that we should enforce in order to create what I call discipline in the manner proposed in this Bill and in this Act which has been in existence for some time now. In the amendment to Section 16, although I support the fact that these people be integrated into security organs, I will be proposing some amendment. It is easy to say that these people will be trained. But once they are trained, they will be poached into security organs. This is discriminatory. This means that the people who qualify and who can enter directly into security organs for employment will be denied a chance because under the NYS, people will have been trained and will, obviously, will have better precedence as far as qualifications are concerned. 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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