President Ruto Assures Kenyans of Quality Education

President William Ruto has assured Kenyans that his government is fully committed to giving quality education that meets world’s job market requirements.

While addressing Kenyans in Cairo on Wednesday January 29th, during his visit to Egypt, the Head of State stressed on the need to acquire knowledge, competencies and skills adding that employers and industries in the modern job market appreciate human resource capital from Kenya.

“Everywhere I go abroad, I am told Kenyans are outstanding and require minimal supervision in what they do,” he said.

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The further explained that his government is heavily investing in improving the quality of education in the country, adding that Ksh.650 billion ($5 billion) was being used in the education and training of Kenyans from the lowest level to university.

“We are implementing the recommendations and we have seen tremendous changes in our universities and improved delivery of the teaching and learning programme,” President Ruto added.

He also applauded the government’s efforts to employ more teachers, that is, historic 76,000 teachers in two years, which according to him is a clear indication that reforms in the education sector aim to sort out the challenges in the sector.

Ruto backed up the government’s program which seeks to create job opportunities for Kenyans abroad.

“In fact, 280,000 Kenyans have left the country to work in other parts of the world in the past two years. We are targeting one million Kenyans to get jobs abroad in various fields by 2027,” he said

Meanwhile, President Ruto commended the critical role played by Kenyans in the diaspora in national development, and urged them to be good ambassadors of Kenya.

On the good ties between Kenya and Egypt, President Ruto said the two countries enjoy warm and cordial relations in various fields and pointed out that the North African nation was a big importer of tea from Kenya.