Investment, Trade, and Industry CS Moses Kuria on Wednesday, September 27, launched the eleventh aggregation and industrial park in Kajiado County.
In his speech, Kuria who has been constantly courting controversy with his verbal salvos against government naysayers admitted that the country’s economy was in ICU.
As such, CS Kuria said he was willing to listen to everyone including the devil in the worst-case scenario if that would be instrumental in the effort to revive the ailing economy.
“Mimi ni Mkristo na namuamini Mungu lakini hata shetani akiniambia vile uchumi itaamka nitamskiza. Hakuna mtu siko tayari kumskiza,” CS Kuria stated amid laughter from the crowd.
Loosely translated as: “I am a Christian and I believe in God but should the devil share advice on how to improve the economy, I would be willing to listen to him. I am willing to engage anyone.”
He said the KSh 500 million projects will be instrumental in fostering local manufacturing and value addition to products with the aim of making exports and providing job opportunities to the youth.
This he said will mark the end of brokers and the middlemen who for many years have impoverished the farmers in the region.
“The farmers in Kajiado will no longer sell their cows through brokers and middlemen for slaughter, but will sell the meat, milk, and skin products that have been added value,” said Kuria.
Kenya’s economy, which is East Africa’s biggest economy, reversed seven straight back-to-back quarterly growth declines to post 5.3 percent growth in the first quarter of the year.
Economists and analysts say unrelenting inflation, daily weakening of the shilling, tax shortfalls, and rising interest rates as well as a fresh wave of political unrest were pushing Kenya’s economy to the edge.
