On Thursday, Embakasi East Member of Parliament, Babu Owino, declared that he planned to call for a grand demonstration at Uhuru Park over the plight of the unemployed youth in Kenya.
Babu planned to do so after Citizen TV aired a story of one Kelvin Ochieng, a jobless student who graduated with a degree in Actuarial Science at JKUAT.
“We have spoken enough. We have begged enough. We have pleaded enough. It is now time to act! In the coming days, I will announce a date for a grand march to Uhuru Park.
“We will invite all unemployed graduates from across the country to a national meeting in Uhuru Park to chart the way forward for ourselves,” Babu pledged.
According to Babu, thousands of young people were going through the same challenge after failing to land jobs, despite spending a lot of money to fund their education.
“I do not blame the youth. How can you blame them? They have done everything they are supposed to do. They have worked hard against difficult challenges to achieve what their leaders told them they needed,” Babu posted on his Facebook page.
The former SONU Chairman further accused the government of failing to create enough jobs for the youth.
He stated that the government kept aged employees in the office, instead of sending them home when they approach retirement.
“Then after all that, the students end up in slums while civil servants who have far exceeded the retirement age of 60 continue being shortlisted for government opportunities.
“Others who have served in appointed jobs for nearly a decade exit those offices only to be recycled as Chief Administrative Secretaries and Chairpersons of Parastatals,” Babu lamented.
