Former Public Service Cabinet Secretary Justin Muturi has hit out at President William Ruto just a day after he hosted Nairobi youths at the State House and gifted them equipment to start their small businesses.
In a statement titled, "Ruto, Kenya's youth don't need charity handouts dressed as jobs," Muturi argued that the president ought to create more formal jobs instead of parading small businesses as the ultimate dream for Kenyan youths.
Terming the drive as the poverty olympics, he claimed that issuing the youth boda bodas would only lock the beneficiaries into a poverty cycle and was not the job creation he was passing it off as. "Serious economies invest in innovation hubs, manufacturing skills, tech funding, and green energy jobs.
Kenya's "youth policy" is basically: Here's a wheelbarrow, now go make us proud.
