Nominated MCA in Kisumu County, Lydia Odhiambo has challenged the area residents to create job opportunities for themselves and avoid being job seekers.
Odhiambo was speaking on Tuesday at a youth forum held at Tom Mboya Labour College organised by the county government to empower locals and to harness skills.
She emphasised that youths needed to participate in improving economy by creating more jobs instead of waiting to be employed, a situation she claimed would make them job seekers forever.
Odhiambo also said, “This can only be done when our locals are fully empowered on their skills and creating more awareness on how to be fruitful using the skills they have.”
“Sensitising the locals through nurturing and funding locals through improving on their skills would have curbed the high rate of dependency ratio as more locals would have created job opportunity hence bridging vicious cycle of poverty within the lakeside region and in Kenya as a whole,’’ said Odhiambo.
Gender and rural sociologists Florence Atera also reiterated on the importance of being job creators saying that that was the only way to improve economy in the region.
Atera said, “We need to use the efforts and skills we have to create jobs and avoid being job seekers as this would reduce high rate of unemployment in the region.”