Just hours before the Jamhuri Day celebrations kick-off, Kiganjo youths have given their views on what they feel their situation is like as Kenya celebrates 52 years of independence.
Speaking in the area on Friday, the youths expressed their displeasure with the current and former governments saying they feel left out on many issues.
"There is nothing much that the government has done for the youths of this country since independence to write home about. I wish they could just dedicate this Jamhuri Day to cleaning our streets as the Tanzanians did," said Samuel Kihiu, a third-year student at Mount Kenya University.
They blame the government for unfulfilled and broken promises.
"All the governments that have come and gone for the good part of those 52 years have always sought their mandate on a youth platform. They promise heaven and deliver nothing. Jubilee government, for instance, promised us four world class football stadiums. Where are they with just a year to elections?" asked Peter Mburu, a jobless CPA (K) graduate.
However, there are some of those who feel that the government has tried to change the lives of the youths.
"We cannot always see what the government has not done for us and ignore what it has done. That is being dishonest. For example the current regime and even Kibaki's have come up with a number of youth-oriented programmes and it is upon ourselves to see how we can benefit from them rather than sit and whine," Eliud Mungai, a clothes seller said.