President William Ruto has given chiefs the powers to employ and make arrests within their areas of jurisdiction with the start of Climate WorX Mtaani programme.
While speaking to chiefs at the Kenya School of Government on Tuesday, September 16, the President announced that chiefs will be instrumental in employing youths for the Climate WorX initiative.
According to the Head of State, the chiefs should embrace the new roles and exercise high level of professionalism in ensuring the employed individuals were from a specific location as directed by the government.
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“We want to have a localised program. We also want to spread employment so we don’t have multiple youths from the same family getting the jobs. I need you to be my eyes. If you spot a bribery incident, look for my number and call me if necessary. Corruption is killing us.”
In addition to employment roles given to chiefs by Ruto, the Commander in Chief also gave chiefs powers to make arrests in the event there are no police around to enforce the law in a bid to promote law and order.
This comes after Kenya Kwanza Government announced the introduction of Climate WorX Mtaani which will replace the previous Kazi Mtaani in which thousands of youths are expected to get jobs.
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The project is set to kick off on October 1st with Nairobi, Eldoret, Kisumu, Uasin Gishu and Mombasa Counties being the first counties where the programme will first be rolled out to with the rest expected to follow suit by December.