Public Service Cabinet Secretary Moses Kuria on Friday, February 23, proposed that all National Youth Service (NYS) graduates be absorbed at Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) institutions to equip them with the skills needed for the marketplace.
Speaking during the admission of NYS Recruits from all 1,400 wards countrywide, Kuria confirmed that he was engaging the Council of Governors to make the proposal mandatory.
Graduates, according to Kuria, would enable them to benefit from extra courses in the institutions and also prepare to fill up jobs President William Ruto secured abroad.
Last year, President Ruto directed Kenyans seeking jobs abroad to undergo training before deployment.
"I'm also in discussion with the Council of Governors to have all the TVETS across the country absorb these graduates when they complete their courses and make sure they benefit from extra courses in those institutions for the readiness of our job export programs," he stated.
The CS also reaffirmed that the graduates accounted for those who underwent the strenuous recruitment process.
"We had to make sure that all those who underwent the recruitment program are those who graduated today. To date, we have selected over 8,000 and by Monday we will have over 15,000 at Gilgil and in Naivasha," he stated.
"Also, we need to ensure all graduates emanate from every ward across the country. We also had to ensure a free and fair process was done to select the graduates. We remember Ruto promising that 80 per cent of these graduates will be absorbed in the Kenya Defence Forces, National Police Service, Kenya Forest Service and Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS)."
"If we started on a wrong footing, it means that all these sectors would have corrupt people," he added.
The CS explained that the government applied biometrics to register the NYS recruits across all the wards to eliminate the issue of ghost workers.
"The use of Biometrics in the registration of all our sectors and more so education and public systems will go a long way toward curbing ghost workers as well as all other forms of malpractice," he remarked.
"I am very impressed by the systems put in place to ensure continuous free and fair onboarding of our newly recruited NYS officers in different paramilitary colleges across the country."
Kuria pointed out that he would enforce the initiative across every sector to enable a free and transparent process.
