Deputy president William Samoei Ruto has promised Mtito Andei sex workers one million Kenya shillings which will be deposited to their sacco.
According to reports, the Mtito Andei sex workers had appealed to the deputy president William Samoei Ruto to speed up the Hustlers empowerment fund, which would enable them switch careers and pursue more respectful ventures.
Through their leaders, the commercial sex workers confessed that it was high time they be considered since the past regimes have never taken their concerns into consideration.
“Sisi kama wauza ngono tunataka naibu wa rais atushugulikie ili tupate kazi zingine. Asishugulikie tu mama mboga na watu wa pikipiki kwa sababu sis pia tutampigia kura (We commercial sex workers want the deputy president to also take care of our needs as opposed to just focusing on mama mbogas and bodaboda guys since we will also vote for him).
As a result, the second in command asked the sex workers to organize themselves into a sacco where he will deposit the one million in a bid to enable them achieve their dream of opening and owning legit businesses.
For the sake of sustainability, William Ruto vowed to keep in touch through a proper follow up to ensure that their new business is successful.
At the same time, the deputy president drummed up support for his bottom up economic model, insisting that it is the only way that would propel all Kenyans to achieve economic freedom.
According to William Ruto, this model of development will empower SMEs, farmers and small business people who are currently suffering in the hands of shylocks and predatory lenders who charge very high interest rates.
The DP is rallying supporters around his ‘hustler narrative’, which he says is a “bottom-up-middle-out economic approach” that has been received with admiration and criticism in equal measure.
While Ruto’s staunch supporters believe that the bottom up economic model is the solution to bridge the widening gap between the rich and the poor , his critics including former Prime Minister Raila Odinga and ANC leader Musdalia Mudavadi have rubbished it, with Raila saying it is a copy and paste manifesto of the ODM party.
