Ngilu pledges to fulfil Narc dream

Water minister Charity Ngilu on Sunday said her presidential bid would revive the 2002 Narc dream that propelled President Kibaki to power.

Mrs Ngilu said she was the only custodian of the Narc dream having stuck with the party since then and was consistent in pushing the common man’s agenda in government.

“I am running for president to fulfil certain broken promises on provision of basic needs, made to Kenyans by the Narc administration,” she said. adding that the government had failed to tackle poverty in rural areas.

The minister noted that as a woman she was the only leader among other presidential candidates who best understood the suffering poor Kenyans undergo in their daily lives and her State House bid was based on a five-point basic needs revolution.

She accused the government, which she is part of, of being insensitive to people’s needs by having lopsided priorities and wrong economic policies that had failed to improve the quality of people’s lives.

“We began well with President Kibaki in 2003 but our priorities as government gradually changed and State resources are now being channelled towards unnecessary expenditure when millions of Kenyans are still trekking tens of kilometres in search of water” she said.

The minister, who was addressing mourners at Ngiluni area in her Kitui central constituency, said her government would put more emphasis on empowering women as a first step in guaranteeing provision of the basic necessities at family level.

“Yes, Kibaki introduced free primary education, but very little is being done by the government to ensure our children get quality education,” she complained.