Charles ‘Kangwana Boy’ Onkoba,17, goes live on the social media platform TikTok from the makeshift studio inside his one-roomed house at their home in Mosora, Nyamache in Kisii county on June 23, 2021.
Some of the most hard-working Kenyans in this nation are its youth, yet they continue to be let down by the very institutions that should be at the forefront in supporting them.
Kenya is an extremely youthful country; the median age is estimated to be about 19 years and 80 per cent of Kenya’s population is below the age of 35 years.
On Thursday morning as I was perusing through Nation.Africa, I came across a complaint from Ms Rachel Mwangi in the ‘Letters to the Editor’ section. The letter is directly addressed to President Uhuru Kenyatta, imploring him to come to the aid of young Kenyan entrepreneurs who won in the #MbeleNaBiz World Bank-funded youth project but are yet to receive their monies, four months later.
Ms Mwangi, who I assume is a young entrepreneur, built a case on behalf of fellow youths in a most poignant fashion: “I beseech President Kenyatta to come to the rescue of the youths, who have chosen to be part of the economic development of the nation as diligent entrepreneurs…the President should act now and save the youth from depression…they don’t want to push a wheelbarrow as an economic pillar.”
