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Employment opportunities for youths in the matatu industry

Kenya's vibrant matatu industry employs  thousands of youths.

Many graduates in Kenya enter the job market with hopes of finding formal employment, not knowing only one in five of them stands a chance.

According to a 2017 survey by the Kenya National Bureau for Statistics, seven million Kenyans are jobless,  with 70 per cent of them being youths .

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