Kiambu County leaders have been asked to amend the requirements to accessing youth funds as the youths are suffering due to the harsh conditions required.
This is according to Kiambu regional TNA Coordinator Gladys Chania who said that the youths mostly in Thika and its environs have been seeking help from her after they were disqualified in the disbursement of the funds.
She added that among the requirements to benefit from the kitty are a one-year bank statement for the youth group which is impossible among the group as most of them have been into drugs and reformed.
Chania said that the leaders, MCAs and MPs should consider being lenient on the youth groups so as to ensure they abandon drug and substance abuse completely.
The interest rate charged to the beneficiaries was also an issue that Chania noted with concern that the government should be disbursing the funds at lower interest rates as it was supposed to be as the current rate is 18 percent per annum which is too high for the youths.
She called upon the departmental heads to ensure they consider the youths as these funds are meant for them.
“We should treat them as youths and not as if we are lending money to business persons. The repayment period has dropped from two years to one and a half years which is not fair to them,” she added.
She was speaking in Thika Town on Wednesday after a meeting with the area youths.