Nearly a year after taking office, President Ruto on Sunday outlined his administration’s accomplishments to date.
The Head of State was speaking on Inooro TV’s Kiririmbi show from the Sagana State lodge, where he has pitched camp since Thursday.
He said his administration’s biggest stride has been in the Education sector, where the Education Taskforce he formed since assuming office has come up with recommendations that will streamline the sector.
“My happiness today is that the task force we formed after I came to office has ironed these issues out and now our kids have a clear path to education,”
Still on education, President Ruto stated that his administration has hired 56,000 new teachers to address the country’s teacher shortage, as well as intervened in TVETs and universities.
“We have also ironed out the issues with TVETs, you know in the past it was not clear how students would go about it in terms of scholarships, capitation.. We have solved that now,” he added.
“We also had issues with our universities, and most across the country were facing closure and we have addressed those issues in consultation with stakeholders,”
President Ruto also highlighted the agricultural sector in his list of accomplishments, stating that his administration was now addressing Kenya’s high cost of living by intervening in farming.
Some of the interventions, he said, included enrolling farmers in a program based on the size of their land and lowering the cost of fertilizer.
“52 percent of Kenya’s cost of living is the cost of food, we have used over 12 Billion to subsidize fertilizer because that is the right thing,” he said.
“Today if you get on a plane and go around Kenya to Malaba, you will see how the maize crop looks,”
Third on his list of accomplishments, he says, is the stabilization of Kenya’s public debt.
“Our first intervention in the supplementary budget, we removed Ksh.300 Billion of money that we would have borrowed,”
“We have also reduced our fiscal deficit from nearly Ksh. 1.1 trillion to Ksh.700M, we have removed close to Ksh.500B that we would have borrowed,”
President Ruto also spoke about his achievements as far as the economy is concerned-saying his administration has stabilized the economy.
He stated that, for the first time in ten years, the National Government was able to pay all monies owed to county governments in July, the same month.
“Hata governors walishangaa wananiuliza, hii pesa ushalipa tayari.. they were used to waiting for unto four months sometime for payments,” President Ruto added.
President Ruto also mentioned that through his administration’s intervention, Kenya was able to increase its savings base to Ksh.6 billion per month.
“Leo Mkenya analipa six percent inaenda kwa akiba, employer analysa 6 percent inaenda kwa akiba.. Ile pesa tulikuwa tunaweka kwa akiba, shilingi bilioni moja na laki tatu, leo tunaweka akiba bilioni sita kila mwezi.
The President is currently on a tour of Central Kenya where he is launching various development projects.
