Top economic advisors of retired President Kibaki have agreed on a new economic model that the think tanks believe will endear Deputy President William Ruto to the electorate. Instead, it has fostered a hostile environment that has made it difficult for enterprise, trade, business, creativity and initiative to thrive,” Ruto explained. He added that, the number of excluded Kenyans is about 10 million or about half of the country's workforce. “We have had a robust, extensive, frank and candid engagement on the single most important destiny-changing discussion in our country’s economic history,” the DP said. The solution is definitely elsewhere: A new political conversation about ordinary people, not leaders and a new bottom-up economic model not trickle down economics,” he stated.

Source: The Star May 03, 2021 02:03 UTC