President WIlliam Ruto has announced that 80 percent of all security recruits will come from the graduates of the national youth service.
Speaking during the passing out parade of 10,000 recruits who underwent a six month long training from Gilgil Nakuru county, Pres. Ruto said the recruits will be deployed to various security agencies across the country.
“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.
The first in command has also revealed plans to anchor pre-deployment training of export labor into the National Youth service following negotiations with potential markets in the middle East and Europe
“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.
This is as the Kenya Kwanza administration has initiated strides of ensuring over 100,000 graduates pass out annually from the national youth service in the next five years.
Ruto has observed a unified perspective of upskilling the future generations that can compete for positions globally
“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.”
Also present at the pass out parade was Public Service Cabinet Secretary Moses Kuria who noted the first batch of 40 National Youth Service personnel have secured jobs in the UK .