President Uhuru Kenyatta and his deputy William Ruto, address residents in Makueni, July 1, 2017. [Photo: PSCU]
President Uhuru Kenyatta has indicated that the August 8 election about a Jubilee team offering jobs and a clear path to prosperity against an opposition that is based on tribalism and selfish interests.
He has called on all Kenyans to choose the path already paved by his government, for the welfare of every Kenyan, saying the opposition has failed to present an alternative worth consideration."There are two roads. There is the road which we have already paved with progress where there is free maternal health care, free examinations, increased connections to electricity, the Standard Gauge Railway, better health care and more," said Uhuru.Speaking at Kambu, Makueni County, during the second day of a campaign swing of Lower Eastern region, Uhuru said the Jubilee administration was offering a clear path to jobs - including 100,000 paid internships.This, he said was far different from the opposition team's first priority, of allegedly spending Sh20 billion to create jobs for three men.“The opposition team is obsessed with power for themselves. These men want to create three positions of power for themselves rather than create jobs for the millions of Kenyans who actually need them. They want to spend Sh20 billion or more to create those three jobs,” Kenyatta said during a meet-the-people tour, Saturday.“For us in Jubilee, we are working to deliver prosperity for all Kenyans. We want to spend the same Sh 20 billion to provide Internships to 100, 000 graduates from Universities and technical institutes – effectively starting them up the job market,” he said in a pointed message to Kenya’s youth, accompanied by his deputy, William Ruto.The president also compared the change-the-constitution cost with the Sh1.4 billion he was deploying to a water project to serve 125,000 people in neighbouring Kitui County.