With the advent of devolution, counties are in a concerted rush to secure the most refined brains in pursuit of excellence.
However, for Garissa, it is never a secret that the county is suffering from massive brain drain.
Many of the sub-counties in Garissa County are largely inhabited by the illiterate or semi-literate residents, a few skilled NGO field officers and a handful of community volunteers together with a couple of civil servants out to eke a living.
The thousands of young persons completing their KCSE examinations each academic year leave their local suburbs for more economically viable towns just immediately they hand over their last examination papers.
This is is a disastrous and disturbing trend that can be attributed to the lack of enough opportunities for higher education or and even inadequate jobs offers for young citizens.
In some specific localities, their highest educated population neither have the basic formal secular education, leave alone the formal religious education.
In light of this, there is an urgent need to reverse the trend where the bulk of educated classes relocate to other towns.
Most importantly, the county leadership should work on developing avenues that encourage the empowerment of rural and suburban population.
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