Nairobians continue to Reap Big From President Ruto’s Ongoing Development Tour Of Capital City

By: Joseph Mutua Ndon­ga

Pres­i­dent William Ruto is cur­rent­ly on a third leg of his five-day devel­op­ment tour of Kenya’s cap­i­tal of Nairo­bi.

He has so far inspect­ed a num­ber of the ongo­ing devel­op­ment projects and launched new ones.

The projects range from  com­mis­sion­ing of the sec­ond phase of the clean-up of Nairo­bi Riv­er, offi­cial open­ing of Tech­ni­cal and Voca­tion­al Train­ing Col­lege at Kamukun­ji, con­struc­tion of a 800-bed dor­mi­to­ry at St Tere­sa’s Sec­ondary School in Math­are.

The Pres­i­dent also pledged Sh5 mil­lion for equip­ping of the dor­mi­to­ries and con­struc­tion of 10 more class­rooms.

The head of state fur­ther launched the con­struc­tion of five more schools and afford­able hous­ing units in Math­are.

As a gov­ern­ment, our com­mit­ment to build­ing of afford­able and decent hous­es for Kenyans is beyond reproach.

Our goal is to lift Kenyans out of deplorable con­di­tions of liv­ing in dilap­i­dat­ed and high­ly inse­cure slums.

We have made great strides. More units are hous­es are com­plete and ready for occu­pan­cy. We are soon going to allo­cate the hous­es to the own­ers.

The ben­e­fi­cia­ries are peo­ple of all walks of life includ­ing the poor and vul­ner­a­ble peo­ple.

On Nairo­bi Coun­ty Gov­ern­ment School Feed­ing Pro­gramme, the Pres­i­dent hailed Gov­er­nor John­son Saka­ja for walk­ing the talk.

The nation­al gov­ern­ment has been part­ner­ing with the coun­ty in ensur­ing the suc­cess of this noble pro­gram.

Food4Education, pop­u­lar­ly known as ‘Dishi Na Coun­ty’ is here to stay.

The Pres­i­dent fur­ther pledged to buy the Nairo­bi Coun­ty Gov­ern­ment a machine capa­ble of mak­ing a mil­lion cha­p­atis per day.

The goal is to boost enroll­ment of our chil­dren. No child should stay at home or drop out of school due to hunger.

In Dagoret­ti South, the Pres­i­den­t’s activ­i­ties began with launch­ing of Tech­ni­cal and Voca­tion­al Train­ing Col­lege.

Since he kicked off the tour,  thou­sands of the Nairo­bi res­i­dents have been turn­ing up to wel­come the Pres­i­dent and lis­ten to his speech­es.

It is worth not­ing con­trary to the impres­sion cre­at­ed by his crit­ics, a host of elect­ed ODM and UDA lead­ers drawn from Nairo­bi were accom­pa­ny­ing the Pres­i­dent.

This devel­op­ment tour reaf­firms the Pres­i­den­t’s com­mit­ment to equal shar­ing of the nation­al cake.

The Nairo­bi vis­it had been pre­ced­ed by devel­op­ment tours in oth­er parts of the coun­try.

Joseph Mutua Ndon­ga Is A Writer And Social Com­men­ta­tor