It's a sunny morning in Nairobi and a mini bus with loudspeakers trapped through the

roof, bombs its way down a dusty street, lined with stalls selling fruits and vegetables.

From inside the van and organiser hands out carp's and tichels to youths running alongside

while an MC shouts out political slogans telling people of a campaign rally later in the

day.

It's election time in Kenya.

I am Dickens O'Lewy and this is assignment from the BBC World Service.

We're just driving behind a campaign vehicle which has young men hanging all around it and

they're all dressed in visible party colours and they're all hyping up the crowd around

them.

We are so excited about the election.

You're very excited.

You want to lead us to take your vanids.

But there's another reason for excitement here.

Money.

Many of the youths who have gathered around the minibus have come here because they will

get paid, paid to hand out tichels and carp's to promote the candidate and to attend the

rally.

John, not his real name, is a campaign organiser in charge of rallying the youth in this area.

It's about money because you see you cannot bring an activity and involve the youth.

Yet you say that it's not funded because they usually associate politics with money.

So it's some, thus they had part of it but you need to just involve them for a little

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