Young people's voice must be loud and clear in next election

Youths during past Gen Z protests in Nairobi. [File, Standard]

The appointment and swearing in of the IEBC selection panel is a critical big step in the right direction. It buttresses the efforts to drive meaningful transformative change agenda through mainstream political processes. Building inclusive political institutions can happen more robustly only in an environment where there is no violence or threat of violence.

It's against this backdrop that we send command to all the young people across the country to polish up their resumes and submit them for consideration as members of the electoral body. The capacity of this country to attain its highest possible potential is domiciled in the pulsating ingenuity and imagination of its young people. For all the work we do daily with young people from political parties, civil society organizations and institutions of higher learning, I appreciate, that youth energy, like a water engineer tames a raging river, must be channeled skillfully. Left untapped and unchanneled, it can be seized by malevolent forces that can exploit it to the disadvantage of everyone.