By Felix Njenga
Deputy president Kindiki Kithure has said that the government is not focused on big businesses and influential businessmen but rather focusing on fulfilling the bottom up agenda in supporting small scale traders.
The DP while speaking in Kiambu subcounty during economic empowerment engagement at St. Peter ACK secondary School, Ndumberi said that it is time for those at the bottom to be uplifted.
“Bottom up means improving the working environment for small-scale traders and boosting their business financially to increase stock and expand their hustles,” he said.
He said that the government is constructing 23 new markets in Kiambu County to enable them to do business in respectable places.
“There is no constituency in Kiambu without a new market,” he said.
He added that in addition to the markets the government is boosting the hustles of mama mboga, boda boda and small-scale traders so they can earn more, improve their lives and helps the government grow the economy.
He called out those who are opposed to the empowerment of small-scale traders, mama mbogas and boda boda to come out in broad daylight and tell Kenyans why the government should not support those at the bottom of the economic pyramid so as to distinguish those who are for the people of Kenya and those who are against.
“From now, we cannot accept those inciting hatred, division and retrogressive politics among Kenyans. If you don’t support us, sell your alternative policies because ours are clear, we are empowering mama mboga and boda boda, building markets, roads, improving coffee, tea and milk and other sectors. That is our policy. We want to hear alternative policy and it can’t be about inciting, promoting division and hatred among Kenyans,” he said.
He said that the government stands for one Kenya because it knows the people of Central Kenya are traders and are found everywhere in Kenya.
“We want a peaceful Kenya so that our people can live wherever they want to leave in peace and harmony with other Kenyans,” he said.
He however assured Mt. Kenya region that the government has funds to complete Mau Mau roads and other roads that has stalled.
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