Youth Leadership, Youth Conflict

Kenya is experiencing a cramp-puzzling-dilemma moment. Allow me to elucidate. There is absolute requisition of having new breed of leaders in our country. This is due from the fact that preceding governments and leadership have failed to meet the aspirations and needs of the citizens. The citizens want services not unproductive politics observed. We all agree. Recently though, there has been an examination on the reliability of youth to deliver the far desired noble leadership.

A lot of resources are being injected to youth projects and leadership preparations. Foreign governments especially the US have had a grander finger in this. This is a fact which has raised a number of trepidations. There have been consternations from the government quarters about the interest of the US Ambassador to Kenya and his control on claims that he his financing a Youth Revolt against the present regime.

Whether this is accurate or fabricated, one argument is valid. Who benefits from the US funds meant for the youth projects? There are undercurrents, nippily raging amongst the youth who have started questioning the credibility and sincerity of the already self-fronting youth revolutionary leaders. The youth displeasures are mounting and the self-styled youth leaders ought to know this. Today, this click of youth can be seen around US Ambassador in his public forums and in press conferences articulating issues and giving deliberations on behalf of the Kenyan Youth. The vilest comes when this group of young people call themselves professionals and elites. The carpenter or mechanic is a proficient professional in his or her own right since he or she is taking an active part in nation building. The groupings emerging in Kenya are thus early warnings enough to draw early response.

Finally, it must be acknowledged by Kenyans that this is our country, our territory and we therefore have a responsibility above everyone to protect and respect every part of it. Every Kenyan must understand the concept of sovereignty, the fundumental freedom, indispensable rights and duties given to us by the constitution. We must avoid fighting one another but combine our arsenals to fight internal and external evasions and colonization of our minds. This can only be achieved when our governance and leadership is not based on age, economic influence, tribe, level of education but ability to deliver, organize, pass credulity standards, and work for the people.

Joseph