Kenya University Students Organisation (Kuso) has appealed to students to be creative to help curb the rising cases of unemployment.
Kuso chairman Babu Owino told our reporter that university students normally wait till their graduation before they start looking for jobs.
“As students, we need to venture into business opportunities and other avenues of income generation to avoid being wasted even after graduation,” said Babu.
Babu, who is Students Organisation of Nairobi University president, urged university students to be innovative and come up with lucrative projects that can be adopted by Non-Governmental Organisations.
“We have many NGOs in our country today which are in dire need of lucrative projects and ideas from the youth,” the Sonu chairman said.
“Let university students use this as an opportunity to empower themselves economically to avoid wasting their degrees.”
His sentiments were echoed by Kuso secretary general Charles Juma who said it is time students also become job givers rather than job seekers.
Juma, who also serves as the Students Organisation of Maseno University (Somu) president, said that empowerment of the youth will reduce cases of the students being used by politicians and lobby groups to cause chaos during demonstrations.
“Our students need to look into the future responsibly by emulating what young and successful fellow youth have done to make it to the top.
“They should even volunteer their services to various organisations as this will in turn give them the relevant experience needed in their respective fields of study,” said Juma.
The university leaders urged the students to be useful to the society as they are the leaders of tomorrow.