It is no longer a secret that the Northern Kenya is massively suffering from brain drain.
Many of the local towns in Garissa County are majorly inhabited by illiterate or semi-literate residents, NGO field officers and community volunteers and civil servants.
Any other young person completing the KCSE examinations leaves the town for more economically viable towns immediately they hand in the last examination paper.
This disturbing trend is attributed to lack of opportunities for higher education or even jobs for the young citizens.
In some local towns, the highest educated individuals neither have formal secular education nor even formal religious education.
With the exception of primary school teachers, a good number villages have absolutely no literate locals.
This means that many of the region's educated elites are now living more comfortable lives in Nairobi and several other major towns while only sending handouts to their Garissa ancestral home and nothing more.
They are only contributing to the cult of over-dependence promoted by the numerous humanitarian agencies attached to the area.
Therefore, there is need to urgently reverse the trend where the educated classes shift into other towns where they create opportunities for others at the expense of their remote villages in Northeastern Kenya.Furthermore, there is also the need to promote the movement back to the rural and sub-urban areas by highly educated professionals as doctors, lawyer, bankers, development and project experts so that a level of an educated community can cross-pollinate with the local nomads thus creating ideological revolution that can make the region economically productive.