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
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.
