YOUTHS.

YOUTHS.
Youths have been urged not to engage in violence during this electioneer period.
Kirinyaga County youth Chairman George Kagori said that the youths have been misused for a very long time due to unemployment.
Speaking during a youths meeting organized by Africa youth trust, he said that the youths should read and understand the constitution so as to be aware of how the devolved government is going to be run.
“The youths have been misused by politicians for a very long time due to unemployment for a very little pay, the meeting is aimed at bringing them together so as to do civic education so that they can understand how the devolved government will be working” added Kagori.
The secretary to the National Justice and cohesion ministry, Maina Ndung’u, said that the justice ministry has laid a national value policy that will be tabled in parliament next week for approval.
He said that the policy is going to be implemented by institutions that are in existence to avoid discrimination, maintain values, integrity that is in chapter 6 that is on integrity article.
“The integrity article will address the issues that have been thorny like the way women, people with disability who have been mishandled for years, giving them powers to fight for their rights” added Ndung’u.
Ndung’u also added that as the cohesion ministry, they have gone to churches where peace message is supposed to be preached by the church ministers urging the media to uphold the code of ethics on balancing and fairness not inciting saying that many people believe on what the media says.
“The media has been said to be the most reliable source of information, if they continue to preach peaceful messages by not being partisan then we will not get into 2007-2008 fracas as we wait to go for the elections, we are also targeting churches where peace messages will be preached to the youths not to get engaged in fracas for a fee” added Ndung’u.
He said the civic training is going to go on as from April this month to June through out the country where 100Million shillings is expected to be used in the training exercise.
He said that they have produced a training manual which has the concepts targeting all Kenyans through Kenya National Integrated Civic education Programme(Kenice)despite the region saying that corruption and marginalization has made the country not be able to implement the constitution.
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