To pursue career prospects, at least 40 members of the National Youth Service have been sent to the United Kingdom.

This was declared on Friday during the 87th New York State Recruits Pass-Out Parade in Gilgil, Nakuru County, by Public Service Cabinet Secretary Moses Kuria.

According to the CS, NYS is now assisting in getting its alumni hired for positions all around the world.

“The National Employment Authority is partnering with the National Youth Service to provide jobs for these young people to go out there and get jobs abroad. As we speak, we have just deployed the first batch of 40 service men and women who are going to the UK for readily available jobs,” Kuria announced.

The CS lavished praise on NYS for its efforts and pillars, particularly the fourth one, commercialization, which aims to provide a service that is self-sustaining and does not require government funding.

“We want to promise you that by 2025, we will give you a divided check, having employed Young people and deployed them to useful commercial purposes and ensuring that we have a self-sustaining NYS,” Kuria added.

Additionally, the CS said that NYS is the real example of the “bottom-up” agenda.

“The 10,000 servicemen and women graduating today are drawn from 1,450 wards across Kenya, meaning we are the true face of Kenya,” Kuria added.

Moses Kuria, the cabinet secretary for public service, declared in October that all incoming government workers would henceforth require a National Youth Service clearance certificate at the time of employment applications.

Speaking during the NYS re-engineering program’s launch, Kuria said that this action will reduce public servant corruption and idleness.

“Before anyone is hired for a government job, they must go through NYS,” he said.

“If we see someone involved in corruption, I will contact the Director-General, seeking to trace if the servant is NYS certified,” Kuria added.

The CS went on to expound on the extent of this mandate, stating that traceability plays a critical role in assuring a candidate’s appropriateness when employing public officials.

“So that even those people who are going to be in the Ministry of Labour, Ministry of Water, Ministry of Lands, we make sure that we have traceability from where they were created, and that factory is right here in NYS,” Kuria said.