Kindiki defends economic empowerment drive

The Mountain Journal

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Kisii: Deputy President Kithure Kindiki has  defended the government’s economic empowerment drive, pledging comprehensive support for thousands of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to boost growth and increase household incomes.

He said the  government is working for all Kenyans, regardless of how they voted thus initiating developments in all regions. 

Addressing the Empowerment Forum for MSEs Saccos at Nyanturago Sports Ground in Nyaribari Chache Constituency, Kisii ,  the deputy president assured the small-scale traders of the government’s commitment to their growth and outlined the administration’s strategic interventions to uplift the sector.

 He drummed up support for the National Youth Opportunities Towards Advancement (NYOTA) and Kenya Jobs and Economic Transformation (KJET)—as essential components of the government’s Bottom-Up Economic Transformation Agenda (BETA). 

“The activities we are undertaking as leaders to empower small-scale traders are meant to complement existing government programmes that pursue the same agenda,” he said hosted by the local MP Zaheer Jhanda

Kindiki said the empowerment initiatives are designed to increase the assets and opportunities available to small traders, women and youth groups, mama mboga, and boda boda operators. He stressed that micro and small enterprises (MSEs) are critical drivers of economic transformation from the grassroots 

Other leaders who accompanied the DP were  by several leaders, including Farouk Kibet, National Assembly Majority Leader Kimani Ichung’wah (Kikuyu), MPs Doris Donya (Kisii), Silvanus Osoro (South Mugirango), Jerusha Momanyi (Nyamira), and Senate Majority Leader Aaron Cheruiyot (Kericho).

Also present were MPs Daniel Manduku (Nyaribari Masaba), Steve Mogaka (West Mugirango), Japheth Nyakundi (Kitutu Chache North), Lillian Siyoi (Trans Nzoia), Fatuma Mohammed (Migori), Alfah Miruka (Bomachoge Chache), and Senators Esther Okenyuri (Nominated), Allan Chesang (Trans Nzoia), and Irene Mayaka (Nominated).