Statehouse spokesperson Kanze Dena was forced to clarify on where the government had created the 840,000 jobs it had claimed to have.
During a press briefing on Tuesday Kanze confirmed that the government alone did not have the ability to create all those Jobs.
She further noted that the jobs were created in totality in the economy.
Kanze revealed that these jobs were jointly created by the government, informal and formal sectors and SMEs.
"Last year(2018), the government created more than 840,000 new jobs. That’s a lot of new jobs, especially coming after an election year when, as we all know, the economy tends to slow down somehow. This year, we expect to do even better," she had earlier reported.
During the Tuesday briefing, Kanze noted that "On the 840,000 jobs created by the economy last year, allow me to make the following clarification. Contrary to some assertions, it is not the government alone that created these jobs. It is the economy collectively."
The statehouse spokesperson further assured the youth of president Uhuru Kenyatta commitment on creating jobs mentioning the Ksh100 billion Youth Africa public-private partnership that he launched.
Kanze further stated that the relaunch of the Rivatext textile firm in Eldoret by the president would directly create over 3,000 jobs and thousands of others indirectly through agriculture.
In may the Labour Cabinet Secretary Ukur Yattani opened out about the government's plan of creating over 1 million jobs for the youth in the manufacturing sector.
Yattani, who was addressing the 2019 Labour Day meeting, announced that labour was identified as a socio-economic transformation in the attainment of the Big 4 Agenda.
