Leaders in Rabai have challenged youth in the area to take advantage of the new Uwezo fund and other devolved funds targeting youth and women to invest more in real estate.
addressing to the youth, Rabai legislature William Kamoti noted that despite the area being rich in investors many of them are forced to look for decent housing away from the area.
According to him many youth are focusing on white collar jobs saying that groups are enough to create employment opportunities.
“We lack adequate houses to absorb our investors, teachers and other government staffs in our sub county, and it’s high time you come together and exploit this opportunity.” Adviced Kamoti.
Speaking in Rabai, the Mp urged the youth and women in the area to consider creating employment opportunities adding that the increasing number of investors in the area have created a ready market.
The legislature called on security officers to allow youth and women to work in groups to discuss and get their mechanism to access the funds.
According to Kamoti, most youth’s challenge is, “ they are afraid that they might end up behind bars as their grouping might be mistaken to security threat. All over Kenya youth are in groups discussing how
to benefit with the new Uwezo fund and should not be viewed as security threat.”
He added saying despite the need to have secure environment, there was need to enquire the groupings agenda before dispatching them.
Similar sentiments were shared by Ruruma ward representative Naphtali Kombo, who expressed the need to have youth work closely with their leaders to address their challenges.
According to him, the employment opportunities in Kilifi county government might not be enough to all unemployed youth, but there were other mechanism to empower the young generation to use the new Uwezo
fund and other devolved funds to invest.
“The idea of we are used to politicians should not arise this time, we are in a devolved system of government and it’s out time to empower our young generation and our mothers economically.” Noted the Ruruma
county rep.
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