Kenyan's aging civil servants received a shot in the arm from Public Service Minister Dalmas Otieno who announced yesterday that the retirement age in the civil service has been raised to 60 years from the current 55.
This flies in the face of Kenya's socio-demographic statistics. For instance, 94% of the population is under 55 years old.
On the other hand, youth unemployment (that is citizens well under the current retirement age of 55) account for 3 million of the population.
Somehow the mathematics don't quite add up.
Or is it that the coalition government is more interested in keeping their cronies employed and only pay lip service to youth employment?
there is no link between retirement age and unemplyoment
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ReplyDeleteThere clearly is a link when there are too many old people in civil service jobs and too many youths on the street!
All we are saying is that it is unfair that every year we churn out graduates who don't even get the chance to work in government; something that the same generation of grey haired civil servants had.
Well said.... the government is not serious about youth employment.
ReplyDeleteThe funny thing is that while the Grey haired civil servant has side business to take care and retirement pension to count on, the Kenyan youth( full of energy) has no job or business to look after.