CIVIC EDUCATION FOR YOUTH IN KENYA

CIVIC EDUCATION FOR YOUTH

By: TARCISIO F. B. GICHUNGE ISAAC KAURA NGORE CHARLES KIBORE AND JOEL KIREMA

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

CIVIC EDUCATION FOR YOUTH IN KENYA

Introduction
By Gichunge WA M’Thirua and Joel Kirema

When many communities in a country are all well-informed and knowledgeable about what goes on in their good country and as there is peace, concord and harmony, the country is proud of its leaders. The leaders are the source of its legacy of tranquility and quietude, while citizens are free to criticize and get away with it. Nevertheless, many people ignore and take it for granted. Though, peace is a worthy legacy in a country. Peace fosters development in a country.

In calmness and serenity, the country enjoys the gifts of progress and prosperity, success and development, affluence and opulence, extravagance and splendor, magnificence and sumptuousness all in one go. People live in heaven on earth and they have time to praise God their Creator in one way or another. Peace, is the most important legacy in any country.

The state of a country living in harmony and concord is a gift of God through their leaders who bequeath a legacy of peace and unity which transform the lives of the communities to understand one another for the sake of cooperation and support of one another. There is no legacy that comes of its own in this world, because legacies are coached through leaders of the communities.

When leaders ignore the fact that they are legacy coachers and breeders they labor and toil in their leadership without a goal. When a leader leads for the sake of leadership, he/she leaves the office without accomplishing anything in his/her leadership. Good and perceptive leaders set many goals ahead on their leadership table and plan for their accomplishment. Success in any one good goal may result in a good legacy for the communities that one leads.

Many leaders come and go without any legacy and others leave the scene of leadership with curses instead. The best thing for a leader is to inform and educate his subjects to understand one another and make peace among themselves. When people live in peace and harmony they always remember their leaders and that remembrance is a legacy of its kind.

In our following lessons, we are bringing issues that bring people and communities together, while understanding one another is one big issue that leaders never bother to consider. Most leaders live in vacuums and they always think that communities understand each other as they understand themselves as leaders who quarrel in public but share their talks in private meetings.

We intend to bring this “honest civic education” for the communities to understand one another. After that, people will know their true roles in their communities as “vulnerable masses.” That is, people should not always blame the government for the little errors coming their ways. They should know that GOOD CITIZENS are the best assets that leaders should strive to attain for their nations. Our theme is, “Good citizens are the best assets for the country.” We should therefore, put these questions to you to nub and crux your right-thinking-self.

In Kenya, do we have a school that teaches good morals? The answer is No. If the answer is No, then we should elect leaders wo will wake up one day and demand the establishment of “Kenya School of Moral Behavior.” Kenyans are led by “blind leaders.” Kenyan leaders are blind because none of them suggests that “Schools should teach moral lessons” to ensure that “well behaved communities” leave schools every end of the year.

Nowadays, youth who leave schools join their communities without any clue of what they are expected to do or not do in life. For sure, parents never teach their children about moral behavior from their homes within the few days they spend with them during school holidays that are sometimes less than four weeks in a school term.