Democratic Party Supports The Gen-Zs Demands And Their Protests

By Paul Mwan­gi

There should not be any delay in address­ing the demands of Gen Z by the Kenya Kwan­za gov­ern­ment, Demo­c­ra­t­ic Par­ty of Kenya says.

The issues raised by this young gen­er­a­tion can be resolved prompt­ly.

In a state­ment made by DP Nation­al Chair­man Esau Kioni, the par­ty said it ful­ly sup­ports Gen Z’s calls to the gov­ern­ment.

“Nobody should ignore what the young gen­er­a­tion is demand­ing. Pres­i­dent William Ruto should take action and come up with a solu­tion before the coun­try faces fur­ther tur­moil,” Kioni empha­sized.

Speak­ing to jour­nal­ists in Nyeri, Kioni stat­ed that Gen Z is jus­ti­fied in hold­ing peace­ful demon­stra­tions as they are fight­ing for their future and urged the pres­i­dent to lis­ten to their demands and respond appro­pri­ate­ly.

“These are edu­cat­ed young men and women, well-informed glob­al­ly. That’s why we, as a par­ty, sup­port their peace­ful demon­stra­tions. Unfor­tu­nate­ly, some indi­vid­u­als have been hired to under­mine this noble cause,” Kioni said.

“We need action from the pres­i­dent, as he has shown with his cab­i­net. It’s detri­men­tal for some lead­ers to engage in under­hand tac­tics while the nation is in cri­sis. Demon­stra­tions are allowed as long as they are peace­ful and do not lead to the destruc­tion of prop­er­ty,” the chair­man said.

In mat­ters of pol­i­tics and lead­er­ship, the chair­man stat­ed that as a par­ty, they are wait­ing to see how the Pres­i­dent will form the next Cab­i­net.

“One should be thor­ough­ly vet­ted before being appoint­ed to the Cab­i­net, and this should be done by intel­li­gence ser­vices. By doing that, it will min­i­mize ram­pant cor­rup­tion in the min­istries,” the chair­man said.

“The pres­i­dent has promised to come up with a new Cab­i­net, and we hope he will not con­sti­tute it like the for­mer one, as he nev­er con­sult­ed our par­ty mem­bers after the gen­er­al elec­tions in form­ing his Cab­i­net,” Kioni con­tin­ued.

“In devel­oped nations, after each elec­tion in a coali­tion gov­ern­ment, the Head of State sits down with oth­er coali­tion mem­bers to draw poli­cies and form a cau­cus that will come up with the Cab­i­net,” said Kioni.

“In this mat­ter, as the DP par­ty, we have no idea what the Kenya Kwan­za gov­ern­ment has been doing. Imme­di­ate­ly after the elec­tions, we were unable to meet the head of state to even offer him a con­grat­u­la­to­ry mes­sage,” Kioni added.

Kioni, who was also a secu­ri­ty advis­er to the late Pres­i­dent Mwai Kibak­i’s gov­ern­ment, said, “The DP par­ty is part of the Kenya Kwan­za coali­tion. We are like any oth­er par­ty, but we have nev­er been giv­en time to even have a cour­tesy call with the pres­i­dent. What we only know is that the pres­i­dent appoint­ed Jus­tine Muturi as Attor­ney Gen­er­al from our par­ty, and now he is out like any oth­er Cab­i­net mem­ber.”