State House Spokesperson Manoah Esipisu on Sunday stated that the opposition's National Super Alliance (NASA) lacked an agenda for the country.
According to Mr Esipisu, NASA is only interested in abusing the existing resources so that three people can get jobs instead of creating wealth for the country.
“You know, people have agreed to take jobs that don’t exist … so, one of the opposition leaders was saying in a media interview that the first job for the team will be to use billions of shillings to change the Constitution so the three phantom jobs can be legitimized.
"The country cannot afford to spend billions of shillings to please three individuals at the expense of creating jobs for the millions of youth who actually need them, " State House stated.
The Spokesman mentioned that the opposition figures ought to know better that they cannot somehow enact constitutional changes within 90 days of taking office to create three jobs.
“Making constitutional changes that require a referendum will simply not take three months. It will take years. And considering how citizens have rejected MPs and Governors that they don’t believe have used their resources prudently, they are unlikely ever to agree to spend billions of shillings to create jobs for the three men promised phantom ones,” he pointed out.
But unlike the opposition, Esipisu observed that President Uhuru Kenyatta was focused on committing resources to lift the lives of Kenyans.
He cited the expansion of electricity access, the building of roads, construction of the Standard Gauge Railway, improving access to NHIF and providing money to the elderly under Inua Jamii program as some of the initiatives that the president had been undertaking.
“You know – for instance – Vihiga County has 16,000 recipients of Inua Jamii. Those are the programs that will be threatened by suddenly shifting billions to fund a referendum to create phantom jobs for three people,” Esipisu noted.
The State Spokesperson made the comments while responding to a question raised in reference to the opposition’s leadership structure during his weekly briefing at State House, Nairobi.
