Nakuru Governor Kinuthia Mbugua has challenged graduates in the county to embrace entrepreneurship and help fight rising unemployment.
Speaking when he hosted officials from the Youth Enterprise Development Fund at his office in Nakuru on Monday, Mbugua urged graduates not to focus their energy on looking for white collar jobs but rather venture into entrepreneurship.
He said that through entrepreneurship, graduates and other young people will be able to create employment.
“Graduates should embrace entrepreneurship and start business ventures that will help create job opportunities for themselves and others,” he said.
Mbugua observed that graduates have good ideas that can easily be turned into business ventures. He added that entrepreneurship will help youths acquire more skills in their specialised areas.
He said that many youths, especially graduates, are using more time seeking employment when they have skills and ideas that can be turned into big ventures.
The governor said that nurturing and funding youth ideas is the biggest challenge stating that most youths have been unable to start businesses because of funds.
Mbugua said that his government will help fund ideas and also urged youths to seek development funds and start business.
He noted that unemployment will reduce if young people are encouraged to take up business saying that with Uwezo Fund, youths have an opportunity to start any kind of business they want.