Uhuru pledges 1.3m jobs despite missed target in first term

President Uhuru Kenyatta. FILE PHOTO | NMG

The Jubilee government has raised the number of jobs it pledges to create annually by 300,000 over the one million target it set for its first term.

The new manifesto bets on county-driven industrialisation and irrigation-based agriculture to rev up jobs in an economy where the rapidly expanding workforce isn’t finding jobs fast enough.

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