The government will hire 200,000 youths to clean towns, 10,000 teachers and 5,000 health workers as part of a stimulus package unveiled Saturday.
This is after President Uhuru Kenyatta announced a Sh53.7 billion eight-point economic stimulus programme, the boldest plan yet by the Jubilee administration to fix the unfolding economic crisis brought by the Covid-19 pandemic.
President Kenyatta said the pandemic is quickly moving from a health crisis to an economic one, with hundreds of thousands of jobs lost and businesses closed with very little economic activity going on.
The government also hopes that with the use of local labour and construction materials, in line the “Buy Kenya Build Kenya Policy”, the money will stimulate and support micro and small business enterprises.
President Kenyatta noted that whenever the government talks about the economy, it bombards Kenyans with figures and statistics without a human face.
