NYS Recruits Set for a 40% Salary Boost after Ruto Announcement
President William Ruto has declared a 40% raise in the salaries of National Youth Service recruits.
At the 87th NYS recruits pass-out parade in Gilgil on December 8, the president reiterated his commitment to addressing the working conditions of the recruits.
President Ruto announced that starting from the next financial year, they would receive a 40% salary boost, in accordance with the recommendations put forth by former Chief Justice David Maraga’s National Taskforce on Improvement of Terms and Conditions of Service and other Reforms for Members of the National Police Service and Kenya Prisons Service.
“Let me report here that when I was here last year, I did commit that we were going to include the National Youth Service in the review of salaries and working conditions of both the police, and the prisons, and I committed that we are going to include the NYS, and we did,” Ruto said.
“Let me confirm that as the report was presented to me and to the government, National Youth Service, beginning the next financial year for three years, their salaries will be increased by 40%.
Additionally, the president disclosed his approval of significant changes within the NYS, involving the addition of 200 more cadets to their ranks.
He clarified that these cadets would bolster the NYS’s capability to provide training for a greater number of recruits across different sectors.
“Let me also confirm, that I have approved the modernisation And the re-engineering of the National Youth Service so that in February next year, we will have an additional 200 cadets that will be trained to enhance the capacity of the National Youth Service to train more servicemen and women as we use NYS to grow the pool of young people that are job, ready, that are ready to take up responsibilities in different sectors,” he added.
