[State House spokesperson Manoah Esipisu addresses the press, April 30, 2017. Photo/PSCU]

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President Uhuru Kenyatta has once again dismissed the Nasa presidential team, after it unveiled the flag-bearer, his deputy and three top cabinet secretaries.

According to him, Nasa knows clearly that its power sharing deal is currently unconstitutional, and will somehow ''enact constitutional changes within 90 days of taking office to create three jobs.''

Through State House spokesperson Manoah Esipisu, Uhuru said making constitutional changes that require a referendum would simply not take three months, but years. 

''And considering how citizens have rejected MPs and governors that they don’t believe have used their resources prudently, they are unlikely ever to agree to spend billions of shillings to create jobs for the three men promised phantom ones.''''You know, people have agreed to take Jobs that don’t exist … so, one of the opposition leaders was saying in a media interview that the first job for the team will be to use billions of shillings to change the constitution so the three phantom jobs can be legitimised,'' he indicated.So, instead of creating wealth, Uhuru said, Nasa's plan is to abuse existing wealth so that three people can get jobs.

''You know the work the President is doing. Expanding electricity access. Building roads. Building the SGR. Improving access to NHIF. Providing money to the elderly under Inua Jamii programme. You know – for instance – Vihiga County has 16,000 recipients of Inua Jamii. Those are the programmes that will be threatened by suddenly shifting billions to fund a referendum to create phantom jobs for the three people.''

In his weekly media briefing, Sunday, Esipisu noted money has to come from somewhere to fund ''this type of activities and the pot is not bottomless.''

''As the President said, the country really cannot afford to spend billions to please the three men, it needs to create jobs for the millions of youth who actually need them,'' concluded Esipisu.

During their April 27, 2017 rally at Uhuru Park, ODM party leader Raila Odinga was named the Nasa presidential flag-bearer, deputised by Kalonzo Musyoka.

ANC's Musalia Mudavadi was named the Premiere Cabinet Secretary, deputised by Ford Kenya Party leader Moses Wetangula and CCM party leader Isaac Ruto.