Friends, The question of unemployment in Kenya has become real and emotive, and anybody who seeks political office will always place this as his agenda. Yet, for a whole 49 Years, we have seen no significant positive change. Instead, we have only faced an increased number of young Kenyans joining en mass in the unemployment job market. This is a worrying trend. And the situation is being used by the politicians to help retain the status quo- where the youth remain jobless while the politicians reap all the gains. The youth are being used as hatchet men in pursuit of power. They are being used as the masses that help gain the political power yet, nothing substantial is being done to address their plight.  Mr. Ben Omondi, Mr. Odhiambo T Oketch and Mr. Nahum Okwiya in a Strategic Meeting in Nairobi today the 28th Oct 2012
It is with this in mind that we welcome The National Youth Forum in their pursuit of clear undertakings with our respective Presidential Candidates about their agenda, specifically for the youth and for our environment. The National Youth Forum under Mr. Nahum Okwiya has since met with two Presidential Candidates; Hon William Ruto and Hon Peter Kenneth, to get their undertaking on the question on unemployment and the sorry state of our Environment. We all know how dirty our Country is. And we also know how jobless many of our people are. Yet, some of these Presidential Candidates are people of means. They have been in power for as long as we can remember. We want to know how best they have used their positions to showcase leadership that offers employment opportunities and helps to turn waste into a resource. We all know that ALL Members of Parliament have huge allocation on Constituency Development Funds- CDF. How have they used CDF to offer leadership, create employment opportunities and to help make their Constituencies Models of a Clean Country? These are very basic issues that will let you know what one can do with advanced leadership. But if one has not been able to showcase what the CDF Funds can do for his people, he must not waste our time with seeking bigger positions. For if you cannot manage the little that you have well, you cannot pretend that you will be able to manage National Leadership well. We at KCDN are happy that we have been part of The Clean Kenya Campaign in seeking for a Clean Kenya. In partnership with the National Youth Forum and other Partners, we are determined that Kenyans must come together and fight for a Clean Kenya. It is with this in mind that we are rolling out the University Students for a Clean Kenya as a Forum of people who can help bring change to Kenya. We cannot continue doing business the same way we have been doing for the last 49 Years. If the last 49 Years did not offer us any hope, the people who have been part of leadership in those 49 Years might not be able to offer us anything new. Kenyans must hence make a clear choice; we either live like we have lived for the lost 49 Years, or, we make a clear break from the past and vote out money, tribalism and impunity. Let us all work for a Clean Kenya and a Clean Africa as a Transformative Deliverable as we turn 50 in Kenya.
Odhiambo T Oketch,
Executive Director, The Clean Kenya Campaign The Clean Kenya Campaign is an Initiative of The KCDN Kenya in partnership with A Deeper understanding of the Eco-System | 
Mr. Ben Omondi, Mr. Odhiambo T Oketch and Mr. Nahum Okwiya in a Strategic Meeting in Nairobi today the 28th Oct 2012
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