Senate Majority Leader Kipchumba Murkomen has offered some advice to President Uhuru Kenyatta on what direction he thinks the president should take to secure his legacy.
In a long statement on his social media pages on Sunday, February 9, the Elgeyo-Marakwet senator took stock of the projects that the Jubilee Party had undertaken in President Kenyatta's second term.
He indicated that President Uhuru Kenyatta was nearing the end of his term, and while he had managed to achieve a lot, there was still ground to cover in other sectors
"Today is the end of the third quarter of President Kenyatta’s administration. Tomorrow is the beginning of the second half of the second term and the last quarter of his 10 years’ tenure of office. Under the Jubilee administration, a lot has happened which is often underrated," he wrote.
He praised the efforts by the Jubilee government in the sectors of electricity, transport, and infrastructure, technical education, the transition to secondary schools and more.
Murkomen, however, indicated that there were places where the president needed to set his sights on to secure his legacy.
"What is urgently needed is to improve our economic growth and support the manufacturing sector to ensure we deal with rampant unemployment among the youth. I believe under the big 4 agenda Uhuru Kenyatta will steer the nation to urgently deal with unemployment and reduce the cost of living," he wrote.
Murkomen also indicated that he had the hopes that the future would be much better if the president directed his attention to some of the areas he had highlighted.
"My wishes, prayers, and dreams are that by the time President Kenyatta retires our economy will have achieved double-digit growth and unemployment will be at an all-time low. If the president can achieve the above in the remainder of his term then he will leave behind a great legacy," he stated.
Murkomen also insisted on the unity of the country as a pillar that President Kenyatta should hinge his legacy on as his term draws to a close.
He expressed fears, however, with the means in which the drive for unity is being conducted with the insistence that the president was only fostering unity for the elite as opposed to truly uniting the masses.
"The country will be united and violence will be a thing of the past if everyone is benefiting from the state and everyone has a stake in the economy. The greatest cause of violence is inequality. My fear is that if we only unite the elite and forget the troubled masses we will know no peace," he concluded.
