Renowned activist Boniface Mwangi penned a long-winded post on Friday on Facebook giving reasons why Al-Shabaab continues to attract Kenyan youths to its ranks.
According to him, the young people of Kenya are victims of their own government hellbent on unleashing sometimes deadly violence on them through the police.
"When young people take to the streets to protest injustices, they're teargassed, beaten and sometimes shot dead," he wrote.
He also painted a depressing picture of corruption and tribalism which he claimed has rendered young people vulnerable to the twisted ideologies of the Somalia-based terror group.
"In a country where the majority of the people are dishonest and where young people think that corruption isn't bad if you don't get caught, it is very easy for someone to become radicalized. A terror outfit like Al-Shabaab offers comradeship and a misguided sense of belonging that Kenya sadly doesn't offer many young people, " the article continued.
The controversial activist also pinned the radicalisation of Kenyan youths to the grinding poverty that many of them are trapped in; poverty that has made it difficult for youths to make rational decisions.
"The indignity of poverty has driven people to hate themselves so much, even when they have a chance to make a good choice for themselves they will vote for the person who will bribe them, or the person who comes from their tribe, or the party whose tribal kingpin they support," he fired.
Boniface Mwangi's hard-hitting article comes in the wake of the Tuesday DusitD2 Hotel attack carried out by suspected Al-Shabaab militants.
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