President William Ruto has challenged the African continent to harness its green energy to create opportunities for Africans.
Speaking on Sunday at the African Union Commission headquarters in Addis Ababa in Ethiopia, the Head of State argued that the continent was no longer a victim of rapidly changing climate change but an explorer of clean energy that lies within.
He, as a result, challenged other African leaders and the African Union to explore the opportunities for jobs across the continent.
The Head of State noted that the opportunities will help curb dangerous travels unemployed Africans embark on to seek better opportunities in other continents.
"We, today, are very proud that Africa is no longer the continent that was viewed just as a mere victim of climate change," he told the gathering.
"Today, we are repositioning Africa as the continent that has the largest potential for renewable energy and we can use this potential, transform it into an opportunity and change it into an investment that will give not just an Africa green industrialisation trajectory but it will also create opportunities for employment and industrialisation that will eventually create enough jobs and stop our young people from migrating using rickety instruments in dangerous voyages to the rest of the world."
The proposal comes just a day after he was appointed as African Union's Champion for Institutional Reform, taking over the mantle from Rwanda's Paul Kagame.
His role involves providing political leadership as well as completing the comprehensive Institutional Reform initiative.
Since taking over the reins, the President has prioritised creating jobs for Kenyans both internally and externally.
In recent weeks, Ruto revealed that he has created over 120,000 opportunities under his Affordable Housing project alone and an additional 100,000 in the health sector.
The President has also sought opportunities for Kenyans in European countries, the Middle East and the Americas.
For instance, Ruto revealed that close to a million jobs are in the pipeline for Kenyans in the USA, Canada, Germany, France, Saudi Arabia and Serbia.
As it stands, Saudi Arabia and the UK have already hired nurses.
