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Here are Kenyans Who Will Receive Raila’s Kshs 6000

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ODM leader Raila Odinga has promised that his government will give out a Kshs 6000 social protections fund to vulnerable Kenyans.

But it has not been clear which Kenyans will receive the Kshs 6000 by a Raila Odinga led government or how the money will be disbursed.

But Laikipia County Governor, Ndiritu Muriithi, who doubles as the Chairman of the Raila Odinga Presidential Campaign Board, has shed more light  on Kenyans who will receive the Kshs. 6000 monthly stipend.

In a radio interview on Monday, March 20, Muriithi explained that the money will only be available for between one and 1.5 million households.

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Mureithi noted key beneficiaries will be from very poor households, as part of the Azimio la Umoja Presidential candidate’s plan on social protection.

“(We will) provide social protection, meaning Ksh6,000 per household for the most indigent households estimated at about 1 or 1.5 million households or so that are the poorest of the poorest,” he stated.

This means that should the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) party leader Raila be elected president, his government would spend between Kshs. 6 billion and 9 billion monthly which translates to Ksh72-108 billion annually on social protection.

Muriithi explained that the social protection programme was among the three pillars of the former Prime Minister’s presidential campaign. The other two are the creation of five million jobs through manufacturing and providing quality healthcare for all Kenyans under a program dubbed ‘Baba Care’. 

On his part, Governor Josphat Nanok, shared the plan of the Deputy President William Ruto, to better the economic state of Kenyans.

Ruto’s Presidential Campaign Director-General noted that Kenya Kenya government would allocate Ksh50 billion of  the annual budget to small businesses in the country.

“He has said that he will allocate from the budget Ksh50 billion which translates to Ksh100 million to every constituency. This  is sufficient to invigorate the local market and small business which will subsequently generate demand for all other businesses,” he stated.

Notably, Muriithi claimed that Azimio was not making any unattainable promises, adding that he had tried and tested some of the policies in his own county. He opined that Kenya Kwanza was only duplicating some of their policies.

“As Nanok and I sell our respective positions, you can see that they, for the most part, are the ones copying us. When you press them for actual detail of policies including where they have executed them, they are unable to do it,” the Laikipia remarked.

He further urged the Kenya Kwanza brigade to stop blaming Raila for the failure to execute some of the projects, stating that the latter has not been in government.

While the presidential aspirants have made promises that call for the allocation of funds, economists have poked holes into the feasibility of the plans. 

However, Raila and Ruto have both claimed that they know how they will raise the funds amid the county’s ballooning debt.


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