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    "id": 808969,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/808969/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ol Jorok, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Michael Muchira",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13461,
        "legal_name": "Michael Mwangi Muchira",
        "slug": "michael-mwangi-muchira"
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    "content": " Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I beg to move the following Motion: THAT, aware that the National Youth Service (NYS) is a Government Department established by an Act of Parliament (Cap 208 Laws of Kenya) whose vision is to catalyse transformative youth empowerment in Kenya; further aware that the twin purposes of NYS are to create a pool of technical, disciplined and organised human resource to undertake national development programmes and to alleviate youth unemployment in both formal and informal sectors by providing skills necessary for employment while promoting national cohesion; further appreciating that, NYS currently targets to recruit over twenty six thousand (26,000) youths annually through a laid down procedure where the vacancies in each intake are allocated for every county and gender; acknowledging that the recruits undergo intense six (6) months training in paramilitary skills, national reconstruction programmes and disaster response, thus imparting a sense of responsibility, values of discipline, respect to authority among other skills and values; deeply concerned that after successful completion of the training, the graduate youths are discharged to seek jobs which often are not readily available; cognisant of the various recruitment procedures, criteria and budgets allocated for the recruitment and training of servicemen and women to serve in the various disciplined forces in Kenya; this House urges the Government, through all the disciplined forces, to consider giving first priority in recruitment of their servicemen and women to willing NYS graduates with a view to reducing their recruitment costs, training period and subsequently training costs and, in addition, creating jobs for those skilled youths."
}