Lawyer and author Miguna Miguna has opined that the high rate of unemployment and poverty in Kenya is man-made.
Miguna said a majority of Kenyans are poor not because of lack of or receiving a poor university education, but as a result of strategies which have allegedly been laid down by the political class to ensure they remain poor.
Referring to the ruling elites as 'despots', the vocal lawyer said they have been out to ensure the majority of citizens remain poor so they can depend on their rulers.
"The unsustainable high unemployment and poverty in Kenya has not been caused by university education; they are a direct result of a deliberate plan by despots to turn Kenya into as country of 500 trillionaires and 55 million hungry, ignorant and powerless citizens," he posted.
In a tweet on Friday, the vocal lawyer said by impoverishing and brutalizing majority of the citizens, the political class has managed to turn Kenyans into slaves who have accepted to be ruled over without complaining.
"The idea is to turn poorly-trained, ignorant, jobless, hungry, homeless and brutalized citizens into slaves with no capacity to think through their problems. They have low self-esteem and view their oppressors as gods who were created to rule over them. We must change this!" the former Nairobi gubernatorial candidate stated.
Miguna has been calling on Kenyans to mobilise and organize for a 'revolution' to remove despots from power.