KIRUI SIMON: Youths should plan their lives or perish

With tribal tensions at their highest level, we need a leader who can bridge the ever-widening gap among the various ethnic groups in the country.

In the search for such a leader, we need not look further than the youth who make a larger percentage of the voters who hitherto have not discovered their powerful and latent bargaining power.

These youth can team up and form an inter-ethnic and cultural forum that can work towards bringing the desired change in communities and to the nation at large.

Youth have numbers and they make the largest composition of about 70 per cent of Kenya's population.

For some time now, they have been misused for political mileage by the political class and later dumped only to be resurfaced in the next election.

It is time we plan our fate or we remain to perish.

You are either at the negotiation table or you are the feast, it is upon our youth to plan well on how to team up and make our numbers count by shelving tribal politics and fronting a united candidate on our behalf.

Tribal rooting has adversely led to political violence every electioneering period so let us not be misused by these politicians who by the end of the day cannot give us jobs.

This is an idea whose time has come, it is an answer to the long quest for unity and doing away with these tribal politics taking centre stage in our country.            

Youth policy expert, Bomet.

Edited by Kiilu Damaris