Nimesema initoke! Embrace mentorship to succeed, Kindiki tells youths

Kindiki said it's a dangerous approach for youth to carry a know-it-all attitude

by EMMANUEL WANJALA

Realtime07 January 2025 - 22:01

In Summary

Kindiki said submission to mentorship should be accompanied with respect of elders and seniors in whichever career one is pursuing.
The DP appeared to be referencing online activities of some young social media influencers, whose posts have been deemed disrespectful.

Deputy President Kithure Kindiki has advised Kenyan youth to embrace mentorship to enable them to achieve their full potential in whatever they choose to pursue.

The DP said mentorship is an inevitable phase in the journey to greatness regardless of how much one is talented.

“Please let us preserve this nation; you are an engineer, you are a content creator, you are an app developer, you have a bright future, but please submit to mentorship. That is the only missing link to help you unleash your full potential,” Kindiki said.

He was speaking on Tuesday during a tour of Swahili Pot Digital Hub in Mombasa to assess the impact and witness the transformative power of technology in proving income opportunities for the youth in innovation, content creation, business process outsourcing, and enterprise development.

“Mimi nimesema leo niongee hii kitu initoke (I have today decided to speak and get this thing off my chest,” the DP said to a loud applause.

The law professor said submission to mentorship should be complemented by respect towards elders and seniors in whichever career one is pursuing.

He said even with his newly acquired status as the country’s second-in-command, he still humbles and presents himself to his father as a son and not the Vice President.

“We know you have talent and God-given physical energy and vibrant intellect, but every youth needs guidance…every youth needs to respect the old,” Kindiki said.

The DP appeared to be speaking in reference to online activities of some young social media influencers, whose posts in recent days have been deemed disrespectful towards leaders, including the President.

In what he termed as fatherly advice, the DP acknowledged that Kenyan youth have huge potential to change the country and catapult it to higher status, but the know-it all attitude exhibited by some of them was their only drawback.

“They don’t what to hear anything from any other person; that is a dangerous approach. It doesn’t matter how powerful you are, it doesn’t matter how gifted you are, how talented you are - you must allow to be mentored; there’s no shortcut. It is a principle of life.

“So please, just allow to be mentored, kubali tu upewe wosia.”