Public Service Cabinet Secretary(CS) Moses Kuria has promised to expand the employment space for National Youth Service (NYS) graduates to enhance productivity in the marketplace.
Speaking during the inaugural ceremony parade at NYS headquarters in Nairobi, the CS said that NYS produces competent individuals who need to be absorbed into the national workforce, which will in return, bolster service delivery to Kenyans.
Further, Kuria said he will rope in the private sector to ensure NYS graduates get jobs in their firms, including providing security.
"I know we are going to do a better job than those other people and not only on government. I will even go to the private sector and tell them that they will enjoy a better value for money by working with NYS," he said.
"It is better you work with disciplined people, people with the right socialisation, with better work ethics. A disciplined worker is better than the one you train from scratch. You can do that job, hata ya bouncer niende niwatafutie si hata hiyo mnaweza?"
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He also revealed that there is a plan to institute a company under the name NYS Enterprises that the government will use to provide room for employment and development in the nation.
"We are working with the President to create a company known as the NYS Enterprises that is going to compete with other companies that is going to build roads, do mining, build houses and carry out agriculture," he said.
"We can be that engine and the catalyst that reconfigures the moral fabric of this nation because we try to do many things but until we reconfigure our value system and moral fabric then we will not achieve much as a country."
