President Uhuru Kenyatta addresses residents in Kajiado county, July 5, 2017. [Photo: PSCU]President Uhuru Kenyatta has indicated that investing in basic services and shunning ethnic divisions are the key to combating poverty across the country.In a campaign tour of Kajiado County, Kenyatta said investment in better healthcare, energy, schools, roads and better farming were driving Government initiatives to end poverty.He spoke in Maili 46 and other towns in Kajiado County, home to the Maasai as well as immigrant communities from other parts of Kenya.It was at Maili 46 that Nasa presidential candidate Raila Odinga allegedly urged the Maasai not to allow non-locals to buy land in the region, a move that Uhuru criticised."It is this stupidity of war mongering that we must guard against," he said. "It is this rhetoric that led to the 2007 violence. Do not allow that madness to take root.""I tell the Maa community, let us keep united. Don't buy into the violent agenda of our competitors. It will retard development. It will erase gains we have made," he added, Wednesday.In Kajiado, Kenyatta launched a 70-km road, and waived hundreds of millions of shillings of loans owed to the Agricultural Finance Corporation, to allow livestock farmers a fresh start.He said for the last four years the party has worked hard to create a better Kenya for the prosperity of all Kenyans regardless of political, ethnic or religious affiliation.

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