Ksh300 Billion Petition: Youth Lobby Targets Parliament on Kenya Jobs

Two years after the deadly Gen Z protests, a youth lobby group filed a formal petition at Parliament on 25 June 2026, demanding a Ksh300 billion supplementary budget to address the unemployment crisis afflicting an estimated 3 million young Kenyans. Received by Funyula MP Wilberforce Oundo, the petition arrived weeks after Parliament approved a mainstay budget with Sh20 billion in youth allocations.

The Petition's Core Demands

The Youth and Young Aspirants League, the youth wing of the United Green Movement (UGM) Party, submitted two most concrete proposals: a Ksh36 billion allocation for skills and vocational training targeting 600,000 unemployed youth, and the creation of a national digital register of unemployed graduates to enable precise, fraud-resistant programme delivery.

What Comes Next

Parliament's Committee on Labour and Social Welfare is expected to convene a public hearing on the petition before the end of July 2026. The government is likely to resist the full Ksh300 billion demand on fiscal grounds but political pressure may accelerate disbursement of already-approved youth funds.