Why youth unemployment problem require more than a strait jacket solution

 

The youth unemployment and underemployment in Kenya is now an undisputed fact.  Statistics from Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) indicating that about 1.7m more people have lost jobs due to Covid-19 pandemic wiping away some of the informal jobs and also triggering a slowdown in the economy, it is expected that the problem is going to get worse with the level of unemployment expected to double to 10.2 per cent in Kenya.