President hosts National Youth Convention on leadership

President Uhuru Kenyatta will today host 6,000 youth for a National Youth Convention which will, among other things, seek to have youth declarations adopted in parliament.
The youth representatives from all the 290 constituencies will congregate at the Safaricom Indoor Arena in Kasarani, Nairobi, starting 10.00am. The representatives will join the National Youth Council (NYC) in a meeting which is in line with the government’s pledge to empower the country’s youth, officials say.
Top on the agenda for the convention is sharing the National Youth Leadership and Entrepreneurship Strategy and the five-point National Youth Service transformational strategy.
The meeting will also come up with a Kenyan position paper on the upcoming Great Lakes Summit on Youth Employment.
Among those expected to attend the function are Deputy President William Ruto, Devolution and Planning Cabinet Secretary Anne Waiguru and representatives from the National Treasury, NYC and Kenya Young Parliamentarians Association.
The convention aims at increasing networks among young people and supporting the implementation of key youth empowerment initiatives. It also aims at improving the commitment of youth leaders towards implementation of youth empowerment programmes.
So far, the government has allocated Sh5.3 billion to all 290 constituencies and young people are encouraged to apply