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ODM leader Raila Odinga has unveiled a plan he believes can make Kenya Africa’s leading financial, logistics, shipping, and aviation hub as well as headquarters for global business, manufacturing, and diplomacy.
To achieve these, Odinga says the country needs a firm foundation for the rule of law and zero tolerance for corruption and complacency.
In the document titled “Kenya Going Forward, What Raila Believes,” Odinga noted that while we invest in prolonged stability of the nation, we must do more to promote social cohesion out of our ethnic and religious diversity.
“We must ensure a fair, efficient, and transparent Judiciary. Investors and citizens need assurance that when disputes arise, there will be a Judiciary that will deliver fast, fair, and transparent justice,” Odinga stated.
The former Prime Minister further highlighted the need for massive investment in manpower development through universal access to a top-flight public education system.
“Trained manpower is the single most important factor determining whether we are competitive or not…Once we train our youth we must ensure they are hired purely on a merit basis,” he noted.
He also emphasized the need to pursue a low and transparent tax regime supported by efficient and clean public service running on a strong regulatory and legal framework.
Massive investments in air, maritime, rail, and road transportation will position Kenya as a natural hub for multinational business in Africa, Odinga added.
“We should invest in higher value-added industries and strong productivity instead of just consumption. We must invest in food security and an efficient public primary healthcare system,” he stated.
Raila pointed out that we must also promote finance innovativeness, entrepreneurship, teamwork, and work ethic, and enhance ongoing social protection measures with subsistence allowance for urban and rural poor.
“Kenyans work hard. Hard work must be made to pay…Upward social mobility comes for all. I believe it’s possible,” he concluded.
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Ruto wants a corrupt judiciary so he can continue stealing our money!
Has baba just woken up from sleep? Has he not been in politics for almost over 20yrs....consecutive years mark you? Why has he not done something about corruption? ...about business hubs etal? Oh..elections are coming..no wonder the fake promises are here again. Not again!!
Corruption is DP Ruto’s first name! It sounds like this Corruption Samoei William Ruto! Kenyans do not want Corruption Ruto to lead them!
Trained manpower = wheelbarrows in Ruto’s future transportation plan for Kenya!
Returning Kenya to Stone Age is Ruto’s economic plan! It is call ngumbaru economics of a mad man!
Ruto has not plan for any massive investments. He wants to issue a damn wheelbarrow to every home in Kenya. Once Kenyans get a wheelbarrow each, Ruto will buy multi billion shillings helicopters to go steal gold in Congo.
He will take one helicopter full of stolen gold to Musevenii and declare it the largest East African trade deal!
The only team work you can get from Ruto is only when him, sudi, Murkomen, Duale, mp kuria and ndindi Nyoro join hands to steal old people’s small pieces of land - eg Mr Muteshi and the his other poor neighbors.
We need caliper to use like
Fir a long time Ruto has believed in the government creating jobs to support him and others of the near same rank with him!
Ruto has lived that self serving idea for over 39 years! Now he says he want to embark on people based economy after benefiting himself from the government systems.
Ruto can change, will not change and does not know how to turn the economy around to benefit those at the SME levels! He should have done long time ago if he knew how to go about it! So Ruto is lying as usual!
On the other hand the baba man’s economy plan stands a better position to implement an economy that will benefit all the sectors of the economy. People can trust baba to do things far much better that any body else.
Ruto just carries a very small stick in his understanding of the economy and other important issues! He is not stable enough to manage the affairs of a country! Worse off is the fact that Ruto is a thief who has been tainted in so many scandals fir many years!
Ruto still have many cases pending in courts locally and at the ICC. Kenya does not need to risk electing a criminal who is wanted every where. Everything Ruto touches dies a natural death! Kenya will die under Ruto!
Rule of law starting with cannibal Raila and Kimuici Kibaki.He must face the law for killing 1300 in 07/08 PEV,killing 89 people in Lamu after grabbing 500000 acres,importing poisonous/cancer maize from SA which is still killing thousands in Kenya.He also killed thousands in Mt Kenya region through the sale of methanol.The monster and Kibaki must also face the law for stealing shs 24b maize,shs 8b KPC petrol,stealing shs 4.5 NHIF fund,shs 6b KKV fund etc.Kenya will only change through a bloody revolution-Bloody as all elite thugs must first be eliminated.
Why does Ruto keep making weird and wild unfounded claims that he made Raila a prime minister? The problem with Ruto is that he lies as much as he steals. The dude has such a big head for nothing substantive to a point he does not know who he is!
Raila never needed Ruto for anything! He did not make Raila the prime minister like he wants to tell us! Even when Ruto attempted to fight, he ended up killing women and children in Kiambaa and many other places the kalenjin style of 1992!
Stop lying to the people of Kenya Ruto that you made baba the prime minister! You won’t even make your dog a good a hunter let alone your weird claims!
If Ruto wins what would that say about Kenya voters ? Are they too corrupt to see it, like a guy who's been fed Kamwiti love potion? Raila is winning if he keeps away from Uhuru Jubilee stains. Kalonzo high chances. Mudav may be. Kituyi winning in bed races. Weta just sly guy looking to enrich himself.
That Kenyan voters are naive and very stupid to elect a Mwizi wa Mali ya uma! It will speak volumes about how corrupt the black folks can be any where in this world! It is time to change the stealing narrative perpetuated by Ruto!
Kenya cannot afford to have a known thief and a Kenei murderer carrying around the instruments of power! Ruto will sell them to so rogue nation and take off to Saiberia.
Ruto was hunting Raila to kill him at busting nyati house and at Kamiti during the Moi tyrannical rule! Ruto preached everything that was oppressive and wrong with the Moi era politics of self deceit and mass theft! Ruto is the one who single handedly looted our coffers to enrich himself! Jirango can attest to this cold fact!
Ruto terrorized Kenyans in the 1990s as he stole our resources! We have not forgot what Ruto has done to destroy Kenya in the past 40 years! Ruto is the last guy Kenyans would want to vote for to become the president of kenya!
Raila fought for the rights and freedom of other Kenyans. He was jailed by Moi for speaking the truth! He deserves the opportunity to serve the Kenyan people as the president!
Raila has nothing to offer. If he did, he would have offered it in the last 50 years. He was a prime minister, what did he do with that power? When he was young and energetic, he achieved nothing- what can he achieve now that he is old and tired. Where is his track record of achievements for his people.
Charity begins at home.
Raila will never rule Kenya. He had a chance, but he lacks patience, and lacks the unshakeable love and commitment for his country.
We are at a time of changing seasons, rulers included. Raila and company ( past rulers) are on their way out and no amount of effort, money or witchcraft will stop or change this course of events.
" Ee mungu nguvu yetu"- God is in control of events!!
Raila has said he would rather stay gone than be the president if a country where the corrupt guys like Ruto go free!!
I wonder what Ruto would want to do or say knowing that he is the most corrupt human being on planet earth!
Kenyans work hard. Hard work must be made to pay…Upward social mobility comes for all. I believe it’s possible,” he concluded.
2 Questions here...
1] How are you going to deal with corruption?
2] How are you going to deal with INSECURITY?
I agree that Kenyans are a hard working people, but how will Raila deal with long established tyrants, the chosen few, the 0.01% of the people who controls the economy?
How do you send a DOG to catch a DOG?
My 2 cents.
Raila is the "corruption" itself
Raila is the insecurity himself..
Raila is the tyrant no.1....he is among them that control the economy,
@korakanini, deadbeat is RAOs first name... what can show as his achievements after decades in public office...but payslips, perks and more perks earning billions from poor taxpayers ..what?
What does Makau Mutua have to say about baba economic plan? A day in politics us like 1000 years in hell.
Why do we have these journalists saying a political competition between Raila and Ruto? There has never been any completion here! Ruto is a known thief! We will not elect a thief!
A hyena as Raila call Ruto for his stealing. Ruto’s bones are made of polished graft; his soul is made of raw thievery clay.
So no body should expect a thief to run for presidency. Kenyans have already reject Ruto because they know the man of Sugoi will finish Kenya’s coffers!
Baba will teach Ruto a good political lesson! Raila will have facts but Ruto will have insults! We will chose the man with the facts and tell Ruto to go to hell and have a day with lucifer!
Watch this beautiful space!