JUBILEE HAS BETRAYED THE YOUTH

Lack of higher quality of democratic governance in Kenya can be attributed to ignorance of the Kenyan youth to engage in political participation. Campaigns preceding the last general elections saw the current Jubilee regime preach the unfulfilled promise of putting much effort in youth development through creation of unreasonable number of employment opportunities. This became a predominant agenda to garner the votes of the young Kenyans who constitute a significant number of the Kenyan population. Four years later, according to World Bank report, Kenya holds the dubious distinction of being the country with the largest number of jobless youth in the entire East African region.

When the time was ripe for to implement their promise for the youth to find their niche, the corruption culture took its course and thieves became beneficiaries with the youths remaining trapped in perpetual unemployment. There is absolutely no youthful face with regards to government appointments which has been majorly grounded on ethnicity. If also the youth are part of beneficiaries of corruption, then the Jubilee regime must have made a major milestone in matters vis-à-vis transformation of the youth.