Uhuru: Jubilee has not discriminated against Muslims
President Uhuru Kenyatta accompanied by National Assembly Majority Leader Aden Duale on January 24, 2017 during the opening of the Jubilee regional office in Garissa town. PHOTO | PSCU
What you need to know:
- Speaking in Garissa town on Tuesday during his tour of the county to urge residents to register as voters in the ongoing listing exercise, President Kenyatta said that he had appointed many Muslims in senior positions including cabinet positions.
- The president also announced that the government has increased relief food for drought affected families so as to reduce its effects adding that water will also be provided.
President Uhuru Kenyatta has said Muslims have been given priority in the Jubilee administration contrary to claims they had been discriminated against.
Speaking in Garissa town on Tuesday during his tour of the county to urge residents to register as voters, President Kenyatta said he had appointed many Muslims to senior positions including in the Cabinet.
He said the Opposition had been spreading rumours that his administration had discriminated against Muslims.
“There are some people who said that Jubilee government has discriminated against Muslims…I want to ask you here… who is current Majority Leader in the National Assembly? Who is Cabinet Secretary for foreign affairs and cabinet secretary for industrialization?” he asked the crowd at Garissa Ndogo.
Jubilee, he said, had done a lot including connecting many Kenyan to the national grid and building new roads in the county.
The President at the same time urged local administrators to ensure all people including pastoralists are registered.
“Whatever we have been able to achieve since we got elected has never been done since Kenya got its independence. Garissa is today connected to the national grid,” he said.
The President was accompanied by Majority Leader Aden Duale, Nairobi Senator Mike Sonko, Garissa Senator Yussuf Haji, MPs Mohamed Shidiye (Lagdera), Ahmed Ibrahim Abass (Ijara), Elias Bare Shill (Fafi) and Abdinoor Mohamed (nominated) and senior government officials.
The president also announced that the government had increased relief food for drought-affected families so as to reduce its effects, adding that water will also be provided.
“The livestock off-take programme that was recently launched is to ensure that people sell their weak animals and then they slaughter them and meat is given to them - this is to ensure no Kenyan suffers because of drought,” he added.
