Young people in Kiambu are of the opinion that civil servants who have reached 50 years should retire to pave way and create jobs for thousands of unemployed graduates.
The youths said it was not fair for the public service to retain people who were senior in age when more energetic people remained idle on the streets.
Many graduates continued to stroll to offices in Kiambu in pursuit of any job which they could be engaged to do at a small fee.
In an interview with Samuel Kamau who had visited the Kiambu district hospital to present his CV said “In just four months after campus, life has taught me more units than the public health units I did at Kenyatta University.”
The way forward to address this problem is to reduce the retirement age from the current 60 to 50 years as officers in this age bracket were now tired and were not as productive as you people.
Another graduate, Mary Muthoni who was spotted hawking second hands clothes along Biashara Street in Kiambu town said that he had spent so much money photocopying her academic certificates and taking them to institutions which were not even acknowledging them.
As a result, she said she had to look for an alternative means to eke out a living so as to sustain her four year old child.
“I think the best solution is people, especially the civil service which is the highest employer to retire at 40 or 50 years so that they can pave way for us in the industry,” she said.
She said that remaining idle may bring a lot of negative things to the society as many came from backgrounds which could not continue to feed them after they completed school
The civil servants and other workers in private entities in Kiambu town disagreed with the young people, saying they should be patient and go for more academic papers before they started looking for jobs.
“I guess that’s a good idea to limit the age so as to create much more space for the graduates and our future generation but the experience is what they will lack in the field so it is very hard to hold such position as just graduates” Abok Brian, a lecturer in Mt Kenya University in Kiambu County says.
The graduates are yet to benefit from any of the promises made by the current government and are calling to the county governments to come up with more positions which they can engage the young people who lack experience.