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Deputy President Ruto To Reverse SGR Port Order

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Deputy President Ruto To Reverse SGR Port Order

Deputy President will reverse legal and executive changes over the use of the standard hand road (SGR) — a pet design of President Uhuru Kenyatta’s administration — should he win the presidential bean on August 9.

Mr Ruto said on Tuesday he’d return major operations shifted to Naivasha and Nairobi to the Coast to end the profitable privation facing original communities.

“It was never the intention of the government to build the SGR so that the coastal people can be impoverished. The SGR was meant to make the port much more efficient and to improve the business and the fortunes of the Coastal people,” he said in Nairobi on Tuesday.

“Unfortunately, a few people took hostage the whole project and ended up with selfish programmes to the detriment of the coastal people.”

President Kenyatta’s administration has supported the SGR design, which he has maintained has reduced the logistics cost and boosted indigenous connectivity and integration and profitable growth of Kenya’s inland.

Kenya is obliged to recognize prepayment of the Sh327 billion it espoused for the design from the Exim Bank of China in May 2014 and started repaying last time after the expiry of the five- time grace period.

President Kenyatta has argued the SGR and the new inland vessel outstations in Nairobi and Naivasha have reduced traffic bettered outback connectivity and prodded profitable growth.

About 30 percent of all weight coming through Mombasa harborage goes to neighbouring countries.

Deputy President William Ruto and Mr Odinga are the leading campaigners to succeed President Uhuru Kenyatta who’ll leave the office at the end of indigenous two terms.

Dr Ruto is running on a United Democratic Alliance (UDA) party ticket.

President Kenyatta also said before that the completion of the depots and inception of freight services will significantly support and give harborage, for the development of the proposed Naivasha Industrial Park.

He said the- forecourt- cadence Naivasha ICD won’t only help relieve pressure on the Port of Mombasa and the Nairobi ICD but will also take the weight closer to Uganda and South Sudan by a farther 120 kilometers from Nairobi.

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William Ruto To Deal With ‘State Capture’ If Elected President

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Deputy President William Ruto has vowed to that his government if given the mandate to lead the country in the August 9 polls will deal with hands-on with ‘State capture.’

According to the Presidential candidate, state policies are being used to facilitate the theft of public funds as corruption had been absorbed into government.

DP William Ruto made these calims while speaking to the Reuters in an interview.

“We have no intention of prosecuting President Uhuru Kenyatta, but we have every intention of dealing with State capture. It cannot be business as usual,” the United Democratic Alliance (UDA) presidential candidate said.

DP Ruto’s running mate, Rigathi Gachagua also alluded to said State capture, saying those involved will be dealt with should Kenya Kwanza form the next government.

“We will not go after individuals. We will go after all those in state capture and conflict of interest,” Gachagua said in a joint media broadcast.

The Mathira MP vaguely explained that it was “people in power who have used or are using their offices to use up public resources to their advantage,” when asked who or what State capture was.

The DP has also revealed plans of bringing to end the Kenya’s national debt, which currently stands at Sh9 trillion, in an exclusive interview with international media.

He said the country has the capacity to handle the debt situation, and that they as Kenya Kwanza have mapped out plans of how to go about it, should they win.

“We will put the brakes on more borrowing. It may not come to zero but we will begin the journey to slow down on more borrowing,” the DP said.

Campaigns hit fever pitch and candidates scramble for airtime to sell their agendas with just eighteen (18) days left as Kenya will soon be headed to the General Election.

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IEBC Clears Sonko To Run For Mombasa Governor

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Sonko has increased the intense in the race for Mombasa county which already has aspirants from the UDA and ODM parties.

Sonko has finally been cleared by the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) to contest for the Mombasa gubernatorial  seat.

On Thursday, July 14 2022, Sonko in the accompany of his supporters was given the green light.

The former Nairobi governor was invited by the IEBC to submit his letter for clearance as per a letter addressed to him earlier.

“The venue will be the IEBC Mombasa County offices and you are expected to submit your papers on July 14, 2022 between 2pm and 4pm,” Swalha Ibrahim the returning officer said.

The letter to Sonko came after a high court ruled that the politician doesn’t be disqualified from vying for governor noting that the governor was eligible to run for office. The commission said it could not head to the courts to appeal the decision as time could not allow.

Addressing the media after the clearance, Sonko said his candidature seeks to solve the problems of the people in the Coastal city and that he was bringing a new awakening in the city.

Sonko said he was not worried about the short time time line he has to undertake the campaigns in the large city noting that he was drawing a campaign schedule to begin immediately.

“We must campaign, we have few days but we will utilize them properly. We can do two days per constituency or a day per constituency,” Sonko noted.

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