Thread by @wmnjoya

.@NationAfrica knows that it doesn't have the argument to justify promoting TVET in its current colonial form. So they get young students to write articles so that Mwalimu here finds it difficult to challenge a young person.

That's identity politics. nation.africa/kenya/news/the…

When it comes to complicated things like policy, the responsible thing to do is get experts to write. During the CBC roll out, I constantly asked media to host a debate where the experts who wrote the thing defend it. No such debate happened. We still don't know who wrote CBC.

We have noted that commercial media houses have become notorious for not employing seasoned journalists. Journalists are not allowed to improve their craft and carry out long term investigations. Most are let go to join public relations, the few who remain become managers.

Now the media houses are even asking for young writers to comment on policy issues because the houses know that we seasoned experts cannot hold young people responsible for their lack of nuance on the issues.

And young people are cheaper.

It's misuse of the youth, @NationAfrica

This speaks to the abuse of the workplace in Kenya that @m_ogada has been telling us about. GoK and pirate sector do not allow us to grow in our skills. They replace us with raw talent because it's cheaper, but the risk is that that talent could be exhausted before it matures.

Kenyans have to have a long term view of life to understand and protect their souls from exhaustion before they are even 40 years old. Raw talent is like a green fruit. It may be edible, but it still needs to mature to become sweet. We need to help our youth mature and ripen.

If @NationAfrica was genuine, they should have seasoned journalists with resources for long term investigations on their payroll, who would then mould budding journalists in the newsroom. But having few veterans and asking youths to write on policy is irresponsible.