A youth lobby group in Nakuru is concerned about how Uwezo Fund loans are being distributed.
Mawanga Youth Agenda (MYA) chairman Antony Waweru claims that there is corruption and dicrimination in the sharing of the fund whose aim was to economically empower youth, women groups and disabled people.
Speaking to the members on Tuesday, Waweru said there was no clear merit in the manner in which the fund was being distributed as hardly any group in the area had benefitted from the fund.
He claimed that the fund’s managers in the ministry of devolution and bank institutions were exercising corruption and double standards in the allocation of the funds.
“I really doubt whether the Uwezo Fund exists or it is a mere public relations gimmick by the government. I am not aware of any group in this area that has benefited from the fund,’’ said Waweru.
He petitioned the ministry of devolution whose docket the fund is being managed from to come clean over the issue.
The group organising secretary Beatrice Onditi claimed that the administrators of the fund in the cosmopolitan region were exercising discrimination and biasness in the distribution of the fund’s money based on tribalism and politics.
“I think the people who are benefiting from the Uwezo fund are those who hail from certain places of this country and those who belong to particular political outfit. It is not fair because all Kenyans pay taxes and are entitled to benefit from government projects according to the constitution,” said Onditi.