Deputy President William Ruto addressing residents in Lamu. [Photo/ PSCU]
Deputy President William Ruto has said the development initiatives of Jubilee have been felt in Lamu.
Speaking when he toured the county on Wednesday, Ruto said 15,000 homesteads in Lamu had access to electricity in 2013 but now the number has risen to 45,000 people.
The Deputy President added that whereas 1,000 people were in the cash transfer programme; today, 3,000 people above 65 years are receiving Sh2,500 a year.
“Jubilee can account for the four and a half years it was in government. The opposition should account for the many decades they were in government," said he Deputy President.
Speaking during the same event, Majority Leader of National Assembly Aden Duale accused the opposition leader of engaging in empty rhetoric when in reality the section of the coalition government he controlled oversaw the theft of public land in Lamu.
He said 500,000 acres of land was stolen during the coalition government when the Minister in charge was James Orengo.
He noted that it is President Uhuru Kenyatta who intervened to revoke the allocation to ensure locals get what is rightful theirs.