Levy –President William Ruto has urged the wealthy families in the country to consider uplifting lives of the millions of poor people living in the slums.
Addressing in the National Prayer Breakfast held at Safari Park Hotel on Wednesday June 7, President Ruto urged the rich to make a small contribution towards his housing program.
He clarified that the end game is to eradicate increasing slums in the country and to also allow the poor persons to have some hope for a safer tomorrow.
“If we feel the pain of the 3%, it is because we are alive. If we feel the pain of the millions of Kenyans who have no jobs and the pain of the 7 million Kenyans who live in indignity in slums, then we are human beings.
“Let us not just be happy visiting slums, take photographs with the poor and then walk away quietly without supporting or thinking of supporting them,” President Ruto added.
President Ruto further recounted his experience in the last prayer breakfast event whose theme was also Reconciliation.
“Which is very interesting because the last prayer breakfast was around the same, and I remember in that prayer breakfast asking for forgiveness from former President Uhuru Kenyatta,” Ruto reminisced.
His deputy, Rigathi Gachagua, used the opportunity to heap praises at his boss whom he claimed had decided to follow the reconciliation way by accepting to forgive and work with some of their opposers.
“We were shocked that the first appointment made by my boss was that of a person who participated in making his Presidency very difficult,” Gachagua remembered.
He went ahead to claim that the last national Prayer event was not only divisive but also a toxic affair full of tension and hatred which the then deputy president (Ruto) could not sit on the same table with his boss.
Both the opposition and government-allied MPs were present.
