First Class engineering graduate loses hope after failing to secure job for 2 years now

Unemployment among the youth is a common problem in Kenya. A situation that has left many graduates without jobs even after families spent fortunes educating their children in the hope that they will have a better future.

25-year-old Bill Clinton Muguai is no different. He is an engineering graduate from the University of Nairobi and a First Class honors graduate at that.

But for two years he has been tarmacking looking for a job or an internship in vain pushing him to a breaking point to the extent of wanting to burn his degree certificate.

Clinton has been trending on social media after he threatened to burn his degree certificate over lack of a job.  He says he has reached his limit after countless rejections in his job and internship applications.

"After applying like a month ago I got a rejection at the beginning of last week and I was like I have been applying for jobs here and abroad, why should I apply anymore," he says.

Muguai had attained straight As in his KSCE examination in 2015, he had always toped his class as this certificate shows. He made it to the university, where he struggled to make it through.

"I was falling into depression in my 2nd and 3rd year but I finished and got my first class honors," adds Clinton.

"Educating this son was not easy, it was not a small task.. Imagine a single mother like me without a job...," says Clinton mother.

He was elated to get to the finish line in under graduate studies and in style as an honors student. But the job market has not been very accommodative of his attempts, as he soon learnt.

This forced him to retreat to the village where he has spent the last year, his mother even frustrated than his son who he hoped would change the family fortunes.

"When there was no job I felt that I shouldn't be living , I should also die. But I couldn't show him how I'm feeling," says the mother.

But even from the village his job search bore no fruits, he says he tried his hands on coding to expand his job search prospects but all in vain. It is then that he decided to try blogging, his last post catching the attention of many online.

I tried engineering it failed, software it failed, so I decided to get a camera and start content...," he adds.

Clinton says he feels that as much as education is the key, his degree is of no value unless it gets him a job.

"I'm just telling my case, my truth and the truth that is the job market, there are millions without jobs...," he says.