Reach out to the youth and make them part of economy

Henry Munene

NAIROBI: The Government spends approximately more than Sh1.6 trillion on procurement annually. This means Jubilee will have spent close to Sh8 trillion on procurement by July next year, when its first term comes to an end.

And if it really kept its word to reserve a third of all tenders for youth, women and people with disabilities, it means the youth would by now have benefited from more than Sh2 trillion. That is, assuming the three special categories share the funds equally. I will not pretend to know whether that has been achieved, much as I reserve the right to observe that the only youth I have seen getting significantly rich are the well-connected ones now playing cat-and-mouse games with the assets recovery agency.