Bomet governorship aspirant Sotik MP Joyce Laboso launches her manifesto in presence of her Jubilee Party Leader President Uhuru Kenyatta, at the Bomet green stadium, Thursday July 6, 2017. [Photo: PSCU]
President Uhuru Kenyatta has urged Kenyans to vote for Jubilee gubernatorial aspirants in the August polls to end squabbles that retard development.
He said the national and county governments are supposed to work in unison for the benefit of all Kenyans but that goal has been elusive in the last four and a half because of opposition governors who have focused on fighting the national government at the expense of providing services to residents.“Counties and the national government are supposed to work together to improve the lives of Kenyans but in the last five years, opposition governors have been behaving as if the two levels of government are in competition, denying residents services that would transform their lives,” Kenyatta said.Speaking in Bomet town where he witnessed the launch of the manifesto of area Jubilee gubernatorial candidate, Sotik MP Dr Joyce Laboso, Uhuru asked residents to vote her in, and send incumbent governor Isaac Ruto, home.
He slammed opposition governors for opposing national government projects aimed at transforming the lives of Kenyans, citing the attempts by Isaac Ruto to stop the construction of a university and a dam in the county.
“We want to end the retrogressive competition between counties and the national Government that has delayed important projects that directly lift the lives of Kenyans,” the president said, Thursday.