In as much the housing program has created over 120k jobs, we will Respect the ruling- President Ruto speaks.
In as much as the housing program has created jobs, we’ll respect the ruling, the president Spoke on Tuesday during International Trade Union Congress (ITUC) hosted by the Central Organization of Trade Unions (COTU).
He explained that the housing project he launched early this year has so far created 120,000 jobs.
Ruto stated,” It took a long time to explain what we are going to do to create job opportunities so that we can have more workers, people and decent wages,”
“There are three things I said I would do in my tenure; robust housing programme- not because we are looking for houses but because housing creates millions of jobs. I want to report that in the last eight months, we have created 120,000 jobs from our housing plan,” he added.
He however, stated that the project would continue to create more vacancies in the job markets because the plan was to create over 500,000 jobs.
“Kenya is a country of workers, as I told you, I have kept my commitment and we now have 120,000 workers. My plan is that by 2027 we will have half a million people working,”
“We are working to increase the number of people working either locally, foreign or remotely, the whole concept is to increase more workers. We are also going to create more jobs around the digital space and technology space. As we are talking now, the Parliament is passing the NG-CDF bill so that we create ICT hubs in every ward in Kenya,” he added.
On matters court ruling, the president Stated that the contentious law follows Constitutional provisions.
He stated,” I know the court has said that we should go and re-adjust the law to align it appropriately… we are going to do that because if we don’t engage these people in productive work, they will become a very big challenge to all of us.”
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