According to President William Ruto, the National Youth Service will be the anchor institution for all deployment training programs for Kenyans intending to work overseas.
President Ruto praised the National Youth Service leadership for providing quality and competitive trainees who were highly sought after in the job market at a pass-out parade of National Youth Service recruits in Gilgil, Nakuru County, on Friday.
He emphasised that NYS would be the major training facility for labour exported outside of the country.
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“We have also agreed that NYS and we are already concluding negotiations with Germany, Saudi Arabia, and ex eight other countries on the export of labor, and the NYS will be the central organization for pre-deployment training so that Kenyans will understand what they need to do as labor exported from Kenya,” he stated.
The president also repeated that the National Security Council had approved that 80 percent of all security personnel in the country, including the Kenya Defence Forces, would be drawn from NYS.
“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.”
The president stated that the administration plans to increase the number of NYS trainees from 10,000 to 15,000 per cohort beginning next year.
Similarly, the president stated that the government was mobilizing resources to expand the capacity of NYS training institutions and skilled training staff and that a 40% salary increase would go into effect in June 2023.
