NASA Co-principal Raila Odinga. Photo: standardmedia.co.ke

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Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) leader Raila Odinga has urged youths to reject negative ethnicity ahead of the August 8 general election.

Raila asked youths to mobilise their peers to take part in the polls.

The opposition chief was speaking on Thursday when he met University student leaders at his Capitoll Hill office in Nairobi.

"Reject ethnic balkanization. It is a political relic from the past with no space in modern day Kenyan society," Raila told the youthful leaders.

Raila, a co-principal in the National Super Alliance (NASA), encouraged the students to maintain a conscientious approach to societal issues.

"Indeed, students have played an incontrovertible role in holding power to account in various democracies across the continent most notably in Egypt, Tunisia and Libya during the Arab Spring. You are the cream of Kenyan intelligentsia."

The former Prime Minister acknowledged the contribution of students' Union movements in the struggle for multi-partyism and political reforms in Kenya.