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First Lady Margaret Kenyatta took the message of empowerment to the coast region Tuesday where she asked the women to vote for a President committed to their progress.
She said by choosing President Uhuru Kenyatta during the August 8 elections, the women will be voting for continued transformation of the country and the progress of all women.
“Let us together transform Kenya. Let us pledge as women to vote for progress”, she told the jubilant women at the Kenya Government School, Matuga Campus grounds during a meeting convened by Maendeleo Ya Wanawake Organization (MYWO).
She reassured the thousands of women, estimated at 6000, that President Kenyatta will keep all the promises he had previously made to them including expanding the Women Enterprise Fund (WEF).
The Inua Jamii monthly Cash Transfer Program will also be expanded to include all orphaned children and people with disability across the country, she told the women drawn from the six counties of Tana River, Lamu, Taita Taveta, Mombasa, Kilifi and Kwale.
“President Kenyatta asked me to reassure you that he will keep his promise to expand the Women Enterprise Fund and the Inua Jamii Program for the elderly”, said the First Lady as she asked the women to vote for President Kenyatta.
“I have come to ask that you, on 8th August, you vote for Uhuru Kenyatta, so that he can deliver his promises to you; so that he can finish his work”, appealed the First Lady.
She expressed optimism that President Kenyatta and herself will continue with their work uninterrupted after August 8.
Before she made her appeal, MYWO representatives from all the counties said they will pool all their votes in support of President Kenyatta.
They said they had already taken a decision to support a humble, merciful and respectful President (Kenyatta).
“We have decided it is Jubilee. We have a reason to vote for Jubilee this time round”, said Mama Fatuma from Tana River summing up the sentiments from other counties.
The women leaders cited the many projects and initiatives President Kenyatta’s Jubilee Administration had completed in coast province as reason to give him another last term of five years.