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NYS To Offer Training For Kenyans Being Deployed Abroad, Affirms President Ruto
By Moses Muli
Published Dec.8,2023 3:11(EAT)
President William Ruto now says that the National Youth Service will be an anchor institution for all deployment training programmes for Kenyans seeking to work abroad.
Speaking on Friday at the pass-out parade of National Youth Service recruits in Gilgil, Nakuru County, President Ruto lauded the NYS leadership for providing quality and competitive trainees who were highly sought after in the job market.
He underscored that NYS would be the primary training institution for labour being exported outside the country.
“We have also agreed that NYS and we are already concluding negotiations with Germany, Saudi Arabia and ex other eight countries on the export of labour and the NYS will be the central organization for pre-deployment training so that Kenyans will understand what they need to do as labour exported from Kenya,” he stated.
The head of state similarly reiterated his past sentiments that the National Security Council had approved that 80 per cent of all security personnel in the country would be picked from NYS, including the Kenya Defence Forces.
“In order to use the NYS as the incubator, the National Security Council has decided that going forward 80% of all security recruitment will be from the National Youth Service,” Ruto noted.
“All those in the KDF, Kenya Police, Kenya Forest Service, KWS…80% will be from the National Youth Service recruits.”
In the same light, the president revealed that the administration would step up the intake of the NYS trainees from the current 10,000 to 15,000 per cohort beginning next year.
This, he said was aimed at achieving 100,000 annual enrolment for the next five years.
“This year, we are graduating 10,000, in next year in the first cohort, it will be 15,000 and in the next cohort it will be 15,000. So next year alone, 30,000 young people from across Kenya will graduate in NYS as we position NYS as the incubator for all other arms of government,” he said.
“We have embarked on a strategic re-engineering of the NYS to enhance the capacity of the institution to take up greater numbers of trainees, and position it on the path of financial sustainability through revenue generation, thereby creating the conditions to support the expansion of enrolment to 100,000 young people annually in the next five years.”
The president similarly noted that the government was mobilizing resources to increase the capacity of NYS training institutions, and the skilled training staff and had already approved the 40 per cent salary increment which would take effect beginning June 2023.
“Beginning the next financial year, their salary will be increased by 40 %. I have also approved the modernization and re-engineering of NYS so that in February, we will have an additional 200 cadets who will be trained to enhance the capacity of NYS to train more service men and women as we use NYS to grow the pool of young people that are job ready to take up responsibilities in different sectors,” he said.
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