The government has been urged to create more jobs in order to curb insecurity that has been on the rise.
According to chairman of the Kisii Leaders’ Consultative Forum Joash Nyamoko, the county government, community based socio-cultural groups, the private sector and other political organisations should aggressively promote youth empowerment with a view to averting youth restiveness in the society.
“Let the community, the government and other partners try to create jobs for the youth so that cases of insecurity can be reduced,” said Joash.
He, however, urged governments and other stakeholders to implement programmes that would not only get more youths into employment but also give them access to acquisition of professional and political experience for effective leadership in future.
“We cannot claim that the youth lack the experience for effective leadership without providing them with the opportunity to acquire and demonstrate such capacity in our public and private lives,” he stated.
According to Nyamoko, youth-friendly programmes of his administration included the establishment of the Vocational Centres designed to offer its graduates business relevant skills.
This comes after the Kisii County announced that most cases of insecurity in the county involve the youth.