Kenya's President Kenyatta pledges $225m stimulus for jobs before 2022 polls
President Uhuru Kenyatta. He unveiled a Ksh25 billion ($225,123,817) economic stimulus package to jump-start the economy, create jobs, and pacify his political base ahead of the 2022 General Election. FILE PHOTO | NMG
Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta Wednesday unveiled a Ksh25 billion ($225 million) economic stimulus package to jump-start the economy, create jobs, and pacify his political base ahead of the 2022 General Election.
The stimulus package will mainly seek to widen the market and offer better produce prices to tea, coffee, sugar, livestock farming -- sub-sectors that are critical in putting money in peoples’ pockets or improve purchasing power.
