Jubilee keen on youth empowerment

NAIROBI: The Jubilee government got into office with a specific agenda around youth empowerment. This was because the owners of the Jubilee campaign and its largest support base across the country were the Kenyan youth.

Three years later it is becoming clear that the promises made during the campaign were not empty rhetoric. The Jubilee government has also taken cognisance of the fact that Kenya, like most African states, has an expanding population that is dominated by young people. Over 70 per cent of the population is estimated to be young people under 35.