{"id":138267,"date":"2026-04-19T08:02:54","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T08:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/matiangi-challenges-youth-to-lead-and-demand-accountability\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T08:02:54","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T08:02:54","slug":"matiangi-challenges-youth-to-lead-and-demand-accountability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/matiangi-challenges-youth-to-lead-and-demand-accountability\/","title":{"rendered":"Matiang\u2019i Challenges Youth to Lead and Demand Accountability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NAIROBI, Kenya Jubilee Party presidential hopeful Fred Matiang\u2019i has called on young people to take a central role in shaping Kenya\u2019s future.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Speaking during the Kirinyaga Diocesan Youth Celebration at the Anglican Church of Kenya, Matiang\u2019i told thousands of attendees that the country\u2019s challenges are a result of poor leadership and decision-making.<\/p>\n<p>He said Kenya has great potential, but has been held back by how it has been managed, adding that the responsibility to change this now lies with the youth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Lord has blessed us with a beautiful country. What is destroying it are the mistakes we have made in managing it,\u201d Matiangi declared. \u201cYoung people, you have a greater responsibility to make Kenya better than it is today.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dPraising the youth for living \u201ctribelessly\u201d since June, he issued a blunt challenge: \u201cYou are more in number \u2014 politics is a game of numbers. Take charge of that game! Occupy leadership at all levels and stop allowing non-credible people to occupy positions of responsibility.<\/p>\n<p>Matiang\u2019i praised young people for what he described as a growing sense of unity beyond tribal lines, saying this puts them in a strong position to influence the country\u2019s political direction.<\/p>\n<p>He urged them to actively participate in leadership, noting that politics is a game of numbers and that young people have the advantage.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, Kenya Jubilee Party presidential hopeful Fred Matiang\u2019i has called on young people to take a central role in shaping Kenya\u2019s future. Speaking during the Kirinyaga Diocesan Youth Celebration at the Anglican Church of Kenya, Matiang\u2019i told thousands of attendees that the country\u2019s challenges are a result of poor leadership and decision-making. He said Kenya [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}