Former presidential candidate Dr Ekuru Aukot has raised questions on president William Samoe Ruto’s plan to send 260, 000 Kenyan for jobs abroad.
Dr Ekuru described the move as “stooping so low” questioning “how is Kenya going to develop by sending the country’s youth abroad to work as housegirls/boys and garbage collectors?”
According to Dr “that’s placing them in a low-income trap where they will never gain any useful skills, then come back with a burnout before they turn 40.” He says the move will creat “a nation of hustlers indeed.”
Ekuru detailed that the “employment policy” of President William Ruto, is targeting to send 260,000 Kenyans a year, or a quarter of the 1 million joining the labour force every year.
As a long-term policy, Ekuru says, that means sending a quarter of a generation to do underpaid minial jobs that people in the host countries consider below their dignity.
“Quite a way to build a proud and prosperous nation!” Said Ekuru on X platform formerly twitter.
While weighing in, Kiprotich Lagat, a social media enthusiast noted “a country should also not use lots of resources to develop its own human resource only to send it abroad instead of having the same contribute to its economy. Ruto ideas are just useless and not helpful at its best.”
