To empower the youth, address root causes of their major challenges

Senator Johnson Sakaja during the Kenya Young Parliamentarians end of year party at Dave Gardens

One of the greatest paradoxes of democratic politics is the discordance between demographic strength and political representation. This is evident in Kenya where the demographic majority, usually the youth and women, are the least represented politically, and the worst marginalised socially and economically.

With this reality, the Constitution has set out to offer remedy through provisions such as articles 55 and 100, which speak to the empowerment of these marginalised groups.