Change tack on job creation to boost the ailing economy

Everybody is concerned about unemployment in Kenya which is getting out of hand despite the country’s comparatively favourable economic standing in Africa. Kenya has the third largest economy in the sub-Saharan region after Nigeria and South Africa. 

The budget readin June, was bigger than that of Uganda, Rwanda and Tanzania combined. The World Bank in its 2016 youth unemployment report placed Uganda youth unemployment at 4 per cent, Tanzania at 5.2 per cent and Kenya 22.2 per cent.