Kenya’s Vicious War Against Its Youth

[Omollo]

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I am glad more and more people are focusing on EJK. I commend Lin Kituyi and her medical NGO for remaining steadfast in the fight against EJK. Kenya is busy eating her youth while condemning survivors to life long unemployment.

Somebody should tell me why the thief who robbed the youth is still sitting pretty instead of being gang banged in Kamiti. The Youth Fund it is called. Read on...

https://foreignpolicy.com/2016/03/14/kenyas-vicious-war-against-its-youth/

[Georgesoros]

Unemployment among the youth is staggering. Just visit any urban center and you'll be perturbed by how bad it is. That's why kenyatta is hiring more law enforcement to maim or kill some of these youth. Policies to create employment are a luxury.

[Empedocles]

Unemployment among the youth is staggering. Just visit any urban center and you'll be perturbed by how bad it is. That's why kenyatta is hiring more law enforcement to maim or kill some of these youth. Policies to create employment are a luxury.

This picture is replicated all over the country:

[MOON Ki]

Worst part is, they have no hope for the future. I see it all the time whenever I go to shags. Sitting outside the shopping center, quietly watching the day go by.

I too have noticed this and have been shocked by the magnitude.  And where I come from they quietly watch during the day, but at night they get busy in criminality.

I'd call them a ticking time-bomb but tribalism sorta keeps it at bay.....sorta.  ... The youth are simply seen as voting machines and cannon fodder, should the cursed enemy ever decide to get a big head. Each of our tribal warlords loves having as many warriors as possible, who at the drop of a nonexistent hat, are every ready to cheer them on.

Ticking time-bomb is a very appropriate term: I can't think of anything that is more disastrous to the country's future that all the idle youth.    As a rule, in Africa they eventually find "employment" in a "Rebel Army" and advance from petty crime to crimes against humanity and taking it out on those who previously lorded it over them.   We tend to think of that as an impossibility in Kenya, but I'm not so sure.   

Omollo: Welcome back!

[Georgesoros]

Every county should build vocational where youth are trained on a skill.

[Kim Jong-Un's Pajama Pants]

One cannot ignore the victims on the police side of EJK.  Cops in Kenya are a desperate lot economically.  If you've ever seen their living conditions, you realize that they are also victims on some level.  And they are armed.  That makes them easy targets as hired assassins.

[Globalcitizen12]

it is a broken society, we are lucky that the two factions right now has embraced low intensity political mayhem. if we ever get a hot head from Rift Valley who decides to for the broke and take on the government it will be a disaster. you cannot reform Kenya police without political will to stop using EJK as a political tool to clash rumblings from the lower class

[Omollo]

As a rule, in Africa they eventually find "employment" in a "Rebel Army" and advance from petty crime to crimes against humanity and taking it out on those who previously lorded it over them.   We tend to think of that as an impossibility in Kenya, but I'm not so sure.   

Omollo: Welcome back!

Thanks. However I am still not "back" as yet. Am working on it.

Just something you wrote (see above). I recall once at choo.com I posted something about "if I wished to start a bush war.." and JAPati people went all crazy. I knew they could see the danger.

[Omollo]

it is a broken society, we are lucky that the two factions right now has embraced low intensity political mayhem. if we ever get a hot head from Rift Valley who decides to for the broke and take on the government it will be a disaster. you cannot reform Kenya police without political will to stop using EJK as a political tool to clash rumblings from the lower class

This will come faster than you and I imagine. WSR is basically being cheated. Unfortunately if he knows, he has not shared it with his constituents who believe in the 2022 crap. The fallout from the deception will be earth shaking.

On the other hand if he opts out of the lie before 2017 then we have a scenario in which his former ally panics and gets tempted to stage a Kibaki-style heist.

[MOON Ki]

This will come faster than you and I imagine. WSR is basically being cheated. Unfortunately if he knows, he has not shared it with his constituents who believe in the 2022 crap. The fallout from the deception will be earth shaking.

On the other hand if he opts out of the lie before 2017 then we have a scenario in which his former ally panics and gets tempted to stage a Kibaki-style heist.

I don't see Ruto going anywhere before 2017; for one, you yourself have noted that Raila and his lot largely mistreated him after the 2007/2008 elections.   

2022 will be especially interesting.    By then, Raila will largely be a spent force; this is his last real chance, and (looking at CORD's approach to voter registration) I think he has already blown it.   And who would be the alternatives in what is now CORD?   Wetangula is simply hopeless, and Kalonzo is too much of  a flake.

I think Ruto will be a very strong candidate in 2022.   Consider, for example, what happens if he decides that he can't trust his friends from Central and instead reaches out to what are now CORD types.