Kisii County Government is committed to empowering the youth through training, equipping them with relevant skills to secure better job market opportunities.
Speaking during the 10th graduation of trainees from Kisii Ajira Institute at Gusii Stadium, Governor Simba Arati encouraged the youth to continue registering in large numbers to acquire digital literacy skills, which are one of the main requirements in a world that depends on technology.
“In the past, people used to say that an academic certificate was all one needed to get a job, but nowadays things have changed, where you are required to possess computer knowledge in addition to your educational certificates, ” he said.
He said that his office has decentralised the registration office from the Gusii stadium to the ward level, like Sameta, to take services nearer to the youth in the rural areas and asked them to have no excuse for seeking admission in the training, which the Kisii county Government freely sponsors in conjunction with the Kenya Commercial Bank.
The Governor, flanked by his deputy, Elijah Obebo, asked the more than 846 graduands to utilise the skills they had acquired to become job creators instead of job seekers.
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He asked them to take advantage of the mushrooming of cyber cafes in the rest of the country to find short-term employees and use any small amount of money they would be paid to advance themselves and move to better public and private firms, where they would earn more money to sustain their lives and their families.
Kisii County Deputy Governor Elijah Obebo revealed that more than 26,000 have graduated from the institute since its inception in 2023.
The Deputy Governor asked graduands to use the certificates they had acquired to advance their studies in local institutions like Kisii National and Kisii University, thereby strengthening their certificates and diversifying their services to any field of their choice.
He asked the youth to shun the use of drugs and excessive drinking of liquor because they weaken their power of reasoning and expose them to abominations like femicide, which he said has become rampant in the region.
He asked parents to teach their children to avoid being too selective in the employment sector, but instead to train themselves to adapt to any available opportunity, and to try to strategise to get satisfactory employment relevant to their career certificates.
By Enock Okong’o.
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