Unemployment is a terrible scourge across Kenya. Many skilled Kenya’s are jobless and dozens of other unskilled hands are fighting the grappling economic situation with poverty due to the unavailability of jobs and the sky rocketing price tags on essential goods.
The situation is not showing any improvements with numbers of graduates being spat into job hunting which is itself turning out to be an occupation for them.
This is a continuing tragedy and in a cogent country like Kenya, bringing an end to this tragedy should on the governments’ top economic priority.
Yet with all these problems, a consensus is emerged from the president that, no long time solution is yet to be found but a short time solution to the same is underway.
We have to find a long term solution to the woes of the country since we have been dependent on these short time solution that even make us poorer every others day
So what is the government supposed to do in order to curb this calamity and avoid brain drain and the suffering of the millions of Kenyan who are moving out of the country in search of jobs and greener pastures?
But anyway, who is talking about job creation these days especially after the near flop of the kazi kwa vijana initiative. Not the government even after it promised to create up to 5000 job slots per year to absorb the youth.
Time has run out and the leaders are at it again, throwing disses at the same government they serve on its failure to deliver their promises. Forgetting that they also had a role to play in the same, they blame that heads yet they may be the failures due to their inability to introduce bills before the house in support of the project.
But the fact that nobody in power is talking about jobs and job creation does not however, mean that nothing could be done.
We should bear in mind that the unemployed are not jobless because they don’t want to work or because they lack the necessary skills. It is the opportunity to showcase their capability that is lacking.
I am of the opinion that there are policies that can be put forward to see the level of employment drop in the country. These policies however should be unorthodox — but so are the economic problems we face.
In indicating that we can do much more about unemployment, I identify of course, the political obstacles in the country to actually pursuing any of the policies that might work.
In Kenya today, any effort to tackle unemployment will eventually run into a stone wall of the governments’ opponents who will always see a loophole of an impending vice and embezzlement of public funds before major steps are taken in the same line.
The legislators themselves do not trust each other and will be willing to fight anyone who tries to outdo them in any way. How do they want to win our trust if they themselves do not trust one another?
Yet in my opinion, that is not a reason to stop talking about this issue. In fact, looking at the past government regimes, it is clear that political realism has been a factor all along for the inability to deal with this as a more important problem.
In my view, policy makers are sinking into a condition of learned helplessness on this unemployment issue because the more they fail to do anything about it, the more they get convinced that there’s nothing they can do about it.
I on the other hand urge those that know better to do all they can in order break this vicious circle.That is the only way to curb this problem.
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