How the State is attacking the family as an institution today

A section of youth during the Meru Diaspora job fair at Kinoru Stadium in Meru County. [File, Standard]

Are the youth led protests against the government justified? Is a question many people locally and abroad have grappled with for the last one year.

The young and not so young men and women that were tasked with the responsibility of sustaining pro government online propaganda have not helped one bit. The government bloggers and their masters framed the protests first as an “ethnic entitlement” issue. They then dismissed it as charade of content creators who were not interested in how their government is run and that after shooting content, the young people, ostensibly from rich backgrounds would just leave the streets. The government bloggers demonstrated that when it comes to burying one’s head in the sand, the ostrich has nothing on them.