Renowned scholar Professor Peter Kagwanja weighed in on the spike in suicide cases and why people are killing each other in Kenya.
Speaking at NTV on Thursday, Prof Kagwanja said that the young people in the country are in a state of helplessness due to the hardships they are grappling with.
He revealed the struggles that university students are going through to get an education.
"What we have is what we call low intensity trauma within the country. You can't make ends meet. In the university, perhaps you have not had a meal, you have to attend lectures, you have not paid your school fees, your parents have called home and told you this is happening... There is a sense of helplessness. That's why we have mass suicide," Prof Kagwanja said.
The renowned scholar went on to argue that some of the extreme actions that are being taken by some youngsters are as a result of the many problems they go through.
A majority of young people, according to him, lack jobs despite having the required qualifications.
His words came in the wake of a shooting incident involving a JKUAT Mechanical Engineering student who tried to scale one of the walls at State House.