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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nominated, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. David ole Sankok",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 845,
        "legal_name": "Halima Yussuf Mucheke",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me an opportunity to contribute to this very important Motion. As Hon. Fabian has said, NYS was formed by an Act of Parliament in 1964. Therefore, this is a very important institution that has lived with us since Independence, though dogged with corruption cases. However, we would like to request Parliament with a polite demand to strategise on how to end corruption at NYS. This may end up denying our youth a very important chance to train in this very important institution in our nation which we cannot do away with. Therefore, we need to deal with the corruption that is going on at the NYS. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, we are at a loss of how many parastatals we have formed so that we can have good jobs for our relatives and friends sitting in boards. In the training of youth, we have so many parastatals. We have the Technical and Vocational Education and Training Authority (TVET), the National Industrial Training Authority (NITA) and the NYS. Why can we not think of ways of combining all these parastatals so that the infrastructure and trainers that are there can offer the same services under one particular board so that we can reduce the expense of maintaining so many boards? Sometimes these boards and parastatals are created with an intention of political and regional balancing and having jobs for our relatives, friends and those who supported us in politics. For us, our intention is very clear – to make sure that our youth are trained in skills that will assist them in future. I support the idea of our disciplined forces prioritising the NYS servicemen and women in their recruitment because a person with paramilitary skills is actually a time bomb in a village. He or she is a time bomb in the middle of civilians and a time bomb in our meetings. You can imagine having a baraza kind of meeting and there is somebody who has paramilitary training. If there is any difference in terms of land issues, he can settle you very easily. This person is a time bomb in our bars. That is why disciplined forces normally have their own social amenities because when we are in social amenities with these people with paramilitary training, it is risky for some of us who may not know them. When it happens that there is a small commotion, you will realise these people need to be somewhere where they are actually restrained from mixing with civilians. As Members who have contributed before me have said, our youth who are trained with paramilitary skills have become grey areas and targets for radicalisation by Al Shabaab, Mungiki,Chinkororo, Baghdad Boys and all those terror gangs; even robberies and other crimes that we are witnessing as a country. We may actually trace those routes to those who have been given paramilitary training. Again, as we think about recruiting youth into NYS and later on into the disciplined forces, let us also think of persons with disabilities because not all of them lack physical strength. There are persons with disabilities who are living with albinism who can really fit into these programmes. There are those with hearing impairments who can really be very good in some of the skills like sewing, plumbing and electrical training. A person with a hearing impairment is the best electrician because they do not have to talk with other people. They will only deal with the machine. I really do support this Motion, but corruption in NYS must end fast."
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