Royal media owner S.K Macharia has urged President Uhuru Kenyatta to leave the country in safer pair of hands when he retires in August 2022.
Speaking on Tuesday, September 28, at a Nairobi Hotel during a meeting of the Mount Kenya Foundation (MKF), Macharia said the gains that were envisaged in the handshake between President Uhuru Kenyatta and ODM leader Raila Odinga should not go to waste.
“Without President Uhuru Kenyatta there would be no handshake. We salute him for that. We ask him to leave that handshake in good hands so that it can continue,” Macharia said in an indirect reference to Raila Odinga.
He said that the former Prime Minister is a safe pair of hands for the country adding that was it not the case, then the President could not have gone to look him for the famous 2018 March Handshake.
“We believe President Uhuru Kenyatta will leave this country in good hands, the hand he went to look for to shake,” he added.
In what appeared to be an indirect attack at Deputy President William Ruto who has been accused of playing tokenism politics, Royal Media Services Chairman said Kenyans don’t need cash to help them improve their living standard.
He reiterated that for the country to realize economic growth, corruption should be fought relentlessly.
“The problems we have today, we did not have them during President Jomo Kenyatta’s time. We worked very hard. We still worked 8 hours from Monday to Friday and until midday on Saturdays. We would never take a single cent of government money,” he stated.
