Raila's call for dialogue misses the point on what Kenya needs

Rt. Hon Raila Odinga at the Funeral of Preskila Oreny Koyo, wife of the late Ker Joash Koyo Opien in Homa Bay County. [Photo, Standard]

Raila Odinga’s call for intergenerational dialogue misses the point. Kenyan youth are not at war with their elders. Nor are elders at war with the youth. The youth are protesting against bad governance and the adversity it has condemned the nation to.

If they complain that someone is not listening, it is not that they want anyone to talk to them. They are asking those in government to act in line with what the Constitution and the law say. Kenya’s Gen-Z and Millennials have been in the streets since June last year, speaking to a deaf State House. They say of the carpenter that he considers the hammer, the nail and the saw to be the answers to everything. The ODM leader recommends a conclave to end Gen-Z protests. He has previously recommended dialogues that yielded.