Kenyans took to Twitter for the better part of Thursday to express their concerns over the state of employment.
This came after betting firm SportPesa, sent home its more than 400 workers due to what it described as an unfavourable business environment.
There has been a wave of job losses in the country in the past couple of months, raising concerns.
In July, Telkom Kenya issued a notice to its staff, informing them of its plans to make 575 workers redundant following its merger with Airtel.
The wave of job losses comes despite the Jubilee government’s pledge to create more than one million jobs for the youth.
During this year’s Labour Day celebrations, Labour CS Ukur Yatani said thegovernment intends to create one million jobs a year in the manufacturing sector, which will raise the GDP contribution from 8.5 per cent to 15.
KOT used the ‘save my job’ and ‘I lost my job’ hashtags to express their frustrations over the state of unemployment.
Janet Machuka said,” This is just heartbreaking to a point where you fear you’ll be next. We’re paying taxes to fund unseen projects and get robbed of our jobs.”
