Nakuru County deputy governor Joseph Ruto has expressed confidence that the county has done enough in ensuring that Nakuru youths are involved in governance and decision making.
Speaking while officially opening a youths training workshop dubbed ‘role of youths in nation building and integration’ organised by the National Cohesion and Integration Commission (NCIC) and the county government, Ruto noted that the Nakuru administration is aware of the importance of involving young people in decision making, saying that they are the future leaders whose ideas have proven useful.
Ruto noted that governor Kinuthia Mbugua has on several occasions held talks with different youths from all the sub counties of Nakuru in an attempt to just listen to them and encourage them on different issues.
“A society that does not recognise young people is a doomed society because they are the drivers of everything that happens around us, ignoring them is dangerous,” he said.
The deputy governor specifically took issue with leaders who have been inciting their supporters during political rallies saying that the commission has to crack the whip before things get out of hand.
“Not acting on such sentiments is dangerous because it makes our young leaders grow with a formed mind that you can incite and go unpunished. As a commission mandated to deal with such cases, it’s your time to act and bring sanity in Kenyan political arena because things are slowly deteriorating to worse,” Ruto noted.
He further called on the commission to involve youths in their activities to make them feel as part of the desired change ahead of 2017, a time he says is the most decisive in many parts of the country.
In Nakuru, Ruto revealed that such programmes will roll out starting mid next year to equip young people with the knowledge required so that they are not 'cheated' again come the general elections in 2017.