Narc Kenya leader Martha Karua now says that it is wrong for leaders from her generation to hijack the Gen Z movement.
Speaking on Tuesday, Karua said these leaders can only be spoilers for the young Kenyans who want to have a better country.
"It's not right for people of my generation to attempt to hijack the youth movement that is asking for transparency and accountability, that is saying things are so wrong we need to go back to the reset button. We can only be spoilers," she said on Spice FM.
She noted that the time to let the young generation to lead is now but that shouldn't mean the older generation should not be part of the movement.
"We should listen to them... It's time we largely gave way to these young people."
Karua insisted that her generation has failed Kenyans before and does not qualify to represent in any way.
She said that in last year's talks, they abandoned the issues raised by Kenyans - cost of living.
The Narc Kenya leader said the youths now want to discuss issues and not personalities.
"The fact that we abandoned the people's issue, were arm twisted to accept something less makes us totally unfit to lead any other dialogue. Especially a dialogue initiated by the people with clarity of demands.
"These people are not asking for any one person to be installed. It's not about personalities, it's about issues. It's about living our national issues as enshrined in Article 10 of the Constitution," Karua said.
She explained that last year, Azimio took to the streets of the Finance Bill 2023, but not much was achieved after the government decided to hold talks with the Opposition.
The former Gichugu MP said despite the support from Kenyans over the cost of living, the dialogue saw them arm twisted and they ended up getting nothing.
Karua said the only outcome from the talks was the IEBC Bill, which according to her was a crisis created by President William Ruto.
"We never went to the streets because of IEBC."