The Kenya Film and Classification board has embarked on a plan to partner with University student leaders to ensure they advocate for clean content and peace in the grassroots.
KDCB board executive director Ezekiel Mutua yesterday hinted that the agency will keep a data bank for all university leaders to ensure that they don’t disappear to Oblivion after completion.
We are going to keep a data bank for all students leaders in the universities to ensure they don’t disappear to oblivion after completing studies but instead stress their presence, “said Mutua.
The official challenged the Independence Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) to partner with university students in a bid to foster peace ahead of the upcoming general elections come 2022.
“We insist that university student leaders play a critical role in shaping the society, and now it’s time we begin the national conversation to have student leaders be involved in key policy formulations so that they can shape the future of youth leadership,” said Mutua .
Mutua made the remarks at the Kenya School of Government KSG in Mombasa after officially closing a three days training towards countering electoral violence and political intolerance.
Mutua said for sustainable moral values in the society, peace and reconciliation need to be realised, it is important that the youth are involved in the peace building process in the country.
At the same time he warned university students against being used by politicians to instigate chaos. About 70 students from 24 universities were taken through the sensitization workshop held at Kenya School of Government in Mombasa.
University student’s leaders present were from Kenyatta University, Multimedia University, Moi University, Technical University of Mombasa, Nairobi University among other public and private universities in the country.