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"speaker_title": "Hon. Mohamed Duale",
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"content": "to formal employment in the forces and in Government bodies. It is better to train them in skills that will make them self-employed. The process of youth recruitment into the NYS is balanced regionally and I do not think it is good for the forces to go out there and look for other people. The best thing to be done, as has been said by one of the speakers, is to allow the forces to take as many NYS graduates as possible instead of going out there to recruit people who have not been in the NYS. It should be a condition that for one to join the army, the police, prison service or the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS), one should have gone through the NYS training. That way, it will give many people some hope that they can get positions in the forces. Those who do not manage to join can use their skills in carpentry, plumbing, mechanics, welding and others in self-employment or elsewhere. In this country, we are lacking mid-level skills among the youths that will make them earn a reasonable living. After this Bill is passed, the NYS should be allocated enough resources. In the future, it should generate its own resources from the many pieces of land it owns. For example, the NYS can grow food for itself. I remember in Garissa County, we had an NYS camp in Balambala Constituency, where Hon. Abdi Shurie is the Member, and I think it is still there, and the rice which was grown there used to be supplied to Garissa and Nairobi NYS training centres. There are many other NYS camps in the country. Indeed, as somebody else said, NYS has a lot of land and they can produce their own food. While it is true the theft that happened last time was massive, a system of oversight was still there. I am not sure if having a council will solve the problem. Perhaps, they will have more details. Instead of having a Director-General, we will have a council in place that will be doing regular reviews. One of the biggest problems in this country is theft. We have a lot of rules, but theft still occurs. Public funds are stolen left, right and centre. It is so terrible. If any Member of this House goes to a bank to withdraw, say, Kshs1 million, I am sure he or she will be subjected to a hassle in terms of filling forms. If you take money to the bank, you will be asked so many questions like where it is from. In fact, I was surprised last time when I heard that people were carrying money in bags, sacks and pick-ups. It makes us wonder whether there is any enforcement of the law. Why do banks have different standards for different people? This scandal happened in banks and yet we know banks have anti-fraud departments. So, we have to ensure that oversight over expenditure is done. Last time, the NYS was allocated funds to the tune of Kshs26 billion. Obviously, that was a red flag. I am sure somebody somewhere was behind the mindset of how to steal the money. It was very unfortunate to learn, when an estimation of the meat to be consumed was done, that every trainee was to get a cow per day. That is amazing. I find it very strange that nobody noticed it until payments were made. It must have been a very secretive system. Perhaps, the creation of a council with a proper management structure where the Director-General will be reporting on a regular basis, will help to reduce such massive loss of funds. Of course, the other issue was about the cohorts who were being recruited. In this country, politics is very dynamic. Today, we have the Jubilee Party forming the Government. Next time it could be the National Super Alliance (NASA) or any other party. We should have institutional arrangements that will make sure that things are set up for everybody’s benefit. Nobody should allocate resources selectively. This is because some of us never had those cohorts in our places. When they finally came that is when the scandal happened. So, we never benefited from that. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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