The economy generated 897,800 jobs in 2017, handing President Uhuru Kenyatta his best annual performance since he took the reins of power more than five years ago.
Despite a sluggish economic growth of 4.9 per cent—the slowest in five years attributed to adverse weather and prolonged electioneering —the number of new jobs generated in 2017 stood at 65,700 more than 832,100 the previous year.
