It's evident that terror groups are targeting young elites to be part of their crew.
As such, one would fail to understand how a university student or graduate allows themselves to be recruited in these militia groups so easily. But it's happening and it's time we look into it.
Recently, it emerged that Al-Shabaab had murdered one of their own suspected to be spying for Kenya.
Police reports later indicated that he was a graduate of Moi University.
A student from Kabarak University had also been arrested earlier on, on his way to Somalia to join the Al- Shabaab militia group.
A while back in 2015, tension filled Moi University, main campus, as it emerged that some students had crossed the border to join the Somalia-based terror group. In that same year, a law graduate from The University of Nairobi had taken part in the Garissa University attack which left 147 dead.
Those are the known cases and no one knows how many more elites have joined various terror groups. It is high time we dig into the matter and try to unveil why our young educated youths are joining the militia groups.
These are is no doubt, grownups who also happen to know very well that joining such groups is also a threat to their own lives. Nevertheless, they still choose to go that way. They choose to forget the good ways in which they were brought up being told that life is sacred and killing is abominable.
Those who used to be caring turn to be callous and so evil that they can take away the lives of people who have not done a thing to them. They choose to die while killing others in a suicide bombing.
This just shows that life has lost meaning to them-even their own. Is it really the love for money? Are our educated youths so desperate for jobs that they don't mind killing for money? Money cannot purchase life and thus the two should never be traded. If the government can avail job opportunities for Kenyan youths, maybe these cases would be unheard of.