Kiambu Administration Committed To Empowering Youth Through Various Activities – Wamatangi
Kiambu County Governor Kimani Wamatangi with Osman Korar CECM youths sports and communication handing a dummy cheque of Sh 200,000 to a youth group for funding of their project during the Youth Day celebrations
By Felix Njenga
Worth Noting:
- The governor proposed for an advertisement to be made to invite the young people with knowledge within the area that the county government is investing in agriculture so that they may get jobs.
- He said that the easiest way the youths can access government support and funding is when they are in an organized group or a properly organized Sacco that can be funded using taxpayers funds.
- “The PFM act has set out rules on how the public funds can be accessed through groupings and not on an individual level,” he said.
- He said that Kirigiti international stadium is yet to be handed over to the county government for management as the contractor is yet to be paid his dues.
Kiambu county government has been training youths and imparting skills on them for employability in a move to address unemployment of the youths in the county.
Governor Kimani Wamatangi speaking during the county Youth day celebrations at the county headquarters in Kiambu town which was attended by over 1,500 youths drawn from the county 12 sub counties said that his administration is committed to engage the youths productively so that they can be able to be empowered.
“We have trained youths with skills to be employed, we have also trained them on digital and we have been training consequently on many other aspects including support in agriculture,” Wamatangi said.
He said that his administration has embarked on equipping vocational center’s where many youths have enrolled to acquire skills.
“We are working with members of the county assembly to lure more youths into our vocational training centers which we have embarked on equipping and providing tutors so that our youths get to train on various skills of their choice,’ he said.
He added that the enrolment of youths into the VTC’s has increased where his administration has also rolled out a program in building in making cabro stones and have provided cabro making machines.
“Our youths are now being trained on cabro making which we have provided cabro making machines in some of the county VTCs. the youth’s once they have acquired the skills they are in turn employed to put up the cabro stones in the ongoing county government bus park construction and upgrade projects and town beautification projects,” he said
He said that his administration is moving towards putting aside Sh 500 million in the county youth fund that is meant to empower the youths financially.
“I urge the youths to be organized and register in groups, register their innovations and have all the necessary paperwork so that we fund you and start your own enterprises. As a government we are making emphasis on youths to be self-reliant as one will have freedom to exploit their minds to the highest potential they can have,” he said.
He said that the youth kitty will not have interest imposed on it.
The governor proposed for an advertisement to be made to invite the young people with knowledge within the area that the county government is investing in agriculture so that they may get jobs.
He said that the easiest way the youths can access government support and funding is when they are in an organized group or a properly organized Sacco that can be funded using taxpayers funds.
“The PFM act has set out rules on how the public funds can be accessed through groupings and not on an individual level,” he said.
He said that Kirigiti international stadium is yet to be handed over to the county government for management as the contractor is yet to be paid his dues.
“The contractor cannot release the stadium to the county government for use until he has recovered his money he spent in building. We believe that with this budget cycle they will be able to get paid,” he said.
He said that the sports department is working on completed the stalled amphitheater which is adjacent to the Kirigiti stadium and construction of new stadiums within the county such as Kanjeru in Kabete subcounty, upgrading Thika stadium to proper standards, Githunguri stadfium, local stadium in Kagwe in Lari subcounty, Ruiru stadium and Thigio stadium in Limuru subcounty are ongoing.
He however said that the Gen Z were misunderstood by the political class when they came out to the streets to express themselves.
“The young people should know that the moment they chose to come out and express themselves and disagree with the many of the things the way they were happening and did so in the right way, this young people were very right.
We cannot pretend as leaders that things are going on okey or things are going on the way they should have been going on. it was time for us to take a relook and the youths have caused a generational course and the thinking of many people in the political class now to know that if you are not responsible then do not only wait for the courts or the gun or arrested that you can be told at your local level that you are not right and when you are not right actions and consequences can follow,” he said.
He urged the young people to be on the alert of those people who are out there to hijack their good intentions of wanting things to change in the country.
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