NASA to spend billions to please three principals – Gov’t

State House has rubbished plans by the opposition to amend the constitutional in first 90 days, if they win the August polls, in order to legitimize three positions that they have proposed to accommodate all the Principals.

State House spokesperson, Manoah Esipisu, termed it imprudent for the country to spend billions of shillings to please three individuals at the expense of creating jobs for the millions of youth who actually need them.

Esipisu said it was unfortunate that instead of creating wealth, the opposition’s plan is to abuse existing wealth so that three people can get jobs.

“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 legitimised,” Esipisu said.

The State House spokesperson was responding to a question raised in reference to the opposition’s leadership structure during his weekly briefing at State House, Nairobi, Sunday, April 30.

Esipisu advised the opposition figures that it is not practical to change the constitution in 90 days so as to gratify their self-aggrandizement agenda.

“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.

Esipisu observed that President Uhuru Kenyatta, unlike the opposition, is focused on committing resources to lift the lives of Kenyans.

He cited the expansion of electricity access, building of roads, construction of the Standard Gauge Railway, improving access to NHIF and providing money to the elderly under Inua Jamii programme as some of the initiatives that President Kenyatta has been undertaking.

“You know – for instance – Vihiga County has 16,000 recipients of Inua Jamii. Those are the programmes that will be threatened by suddenly shifting billions to fund a referendum to create phantom jobs for three people,” Mr Esipisu pointed out.