Kenyans on Twitter lecture the nation and youth on unemployment
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By
James Wanzala
| May 03, 2016
As Kenyans continued to celebrate the Labour Day Holidays that started on Sunday, Kenyans on Twitter(KOT) took to social media to lecture the nation and youths on how to create and get job opportunities respectively.
Using the trending hashtag #UnemploymentTalk254, they also shared views on what the nation and youths can do to create jobs for many unemployment Kenyans majority of them being youths.
According to Felix Otiatio, an economic expert with the Federation of Kenya Employers (FKE), Kenya's unemployment rate last year June was at 40 percent, up from only 12 percent in 2006.
Otiato said young people account for more than 35 percent of the national population, yet they account for a whopping 67 percent of the country's unemployed workforce.
Raphael Obonyo @RaphaelObonyo: @rirojeremy Government should work with private sector to create jobs for youth #UnemploymentTalk254 #ConvoYouthKELaunch.
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Eric Mwiti @Ericc_Mwiti: GoK should offer jobs to the youth, and that would be a good way to fight youth radicalisation. #UnemploymentTalk254.
Mbuthiah Maingi @mmbuthiah: In order to entirely arrest & charge #UnemploymentTalk254 we must first digest the demographic pattern vis a vis the ratio of job creation.
To Nyandiga, tribe is the greatest impediment to getting a job in Kenya.
nyandiga @nyandig001: Unemployment will forever remain a problem as long as the most important qualification in your CV is your "tribe". #UnemploymentTalk254.
Daudi had advice to university students. DAUDI @ItsDaudi: Make use of that time in University, you can't copy assignments, and use mwakenya's n expect that corner office #UnemploymentTalk254.
To one Prof_Ongeri(not former Education Minister), he cautioned youths against sports gambling, which has become common among the jobless youths.
@Boncrazy1: Sportpesa is not your employer its your employee. #UnemploymentTalk254.
Makúmi Mukua Wega blames employer's requirements for five years' experience to be a barrier to employment.
@LosartasH : #UnemploymentTalk254 employers are looking for an experienced graduate, most of these jobs are tagged along with "..with a 5yrs experience".