NAIROBI, Kenya, Dec 10- The fifth President of Kenya will by now doubt face an onerous task of reviving a sickly economy, battered by a myriad of challenges including the COVID-19 pandemic.
This will come with creating jobs for millions of Kenyans that have lost their jobs over the past few years- among them the countries majority population, the youth.
The 10 measures include a Sh6,000 monthly kitty for 2 million needy families across the country. It will be under a social protection programme dubbed ‘Inua Jamii Pesa Mfukoni’.
“I want to emphasize, it is not a handout, but an investment and a foundation for a new parity change that will also trigger massive economic activity and create thousands of localized small-scale businesses and enterprises across the country,” he said.
“This will lead to millions of jobs.”
To promote health among Kenyans, Odinga said he will introduce a programme dubbed ‘Baba Care’, that will see all Universal Health care initiatives extended to all Kenyans.
“We will ensure that each and every Kenyan has a social health insurance plan,” he said.
“Those who cannot pay, the government will pay for them, so that no Kenyan will die or suffer or lack treatment because of lack of money.”
The third programme is dubbed ‘Kazi Kwa Wote’, which will be about securing the welfare of Kenyans by generating avenues for productivity through job creation programmes.
The fourth programme if elected President, he said will be about promoting women under the Uchumi Kwa Akina Mama initiative.
“This will focus on the true multipliers of our wealth in our community; our women,” he said.
This will be providing financial support to women-led businesses and “proportional representation in all government levels.”
The fifth will be ‘Hashtag Inawezekana’, which will focus on equipping “our youth with the mindset, skills, funds, and technology to enable them to innovate at par & surpass their global counterparts.”
“The youth are closer to our future than we are,” he said. “But they are exploited as fodder for bad politics. More now than ever, we need to invest and prepare our youth for the future.”
The other one will be “Waste not a Single Child” which Raila said will be an aggressive scheme to ensure that all get rightful access to quality education.”
Odinga also said he will initiate the ‘Fukuza Njaa’ programme, whose aim is to generate the agricultural bounty that Kenya has the potential to produce and also feed the hungry.
Further, he said he will start a ‘One County, One Product programme’, which will be designed to be a launchpad to a Kenya which consumes its products, exports excesses, and registers surpluses.
The plan, he said is to have all the 47 Counties “start industrializing at an unstoppable rate.”
He revealed his economic plan at the Kasarani stadium when he officially declared interest to succeed President Uhuru Kenyatta, before a mammoth crowd of supporters.
Six Cabinet Secretaries, Governors, and dozens of legislators also attended the colourful event.
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