President William Ruto has continued to defend the controversial housing levy, this time asking critics to separate it from politics.
“There is nothing wrong with the housing program we just need to separate the politics,” Ruto said.
Speaking on Monday during the opening ceremony of the second United Nations Habitat Assembly Ruto compared Kenya’s national housing corporate to Korea’s which he said was launched simultaneously.
“We started national housing corporate the same year Korea and Singapore started theirs,” he said.
“Korea was a slum just like Kibera, Singapore now has 85% housing.”
While insisting that the plan will favour Kenyans, Ruto said there are close to six million people living in slums with no water, no toilets.
“We are going to create a lot of employment with this new program. Architect’s, contractors and constructors and that is how we will create a wider tax-paying bracket,” he said.
“Many people have asked me Mr. president you are telling me about building a home for people of the slums, how is it my Business and I tell them those people are also Kenyans and they matter, they voted as well.”
