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Kenyan President William Ruto embarked on a trip to pursue employment opportunities for Kenyans in Germany. This was following German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s visit to Kenya in May when he announced that the German leader had agreed to open doors to 250,000 professional, skilled, and semi-skilled Kenyans to meet the European country’s huge labour requirements.
Kenyan President William Ruto embarked on a trip to pursue employment opportunities for Kenyans in Germany. This was following German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s visit to Kenya in May when he announced that the German leader had agreed to open doors to 250,000 professional, skilled, and semi-skilled Kenyans to meet the European country’s huge labour requirements. Ruto said youth employment is what will help lower the skyrocketing cost of living and pledged to continue pursuing labour agreements abroad. He and Labour Cabinet Secretary Florence Bore are seeking to sign pacts that will see Kenya send over 3,000 workers abroad every week.
He, however, did not mention when the government plans to begin sending Kenyans abroad under the agreements. At the same time, Ruto dismissed critics of his tens of foreign trips since he assumed office in September last year. He stated that when leaving the country, he is on a tourist mission; but to work for Kenyans.
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Ruto recently said he had struck an agreement with the American tech corporations Amazon, Intel, and Google during his US-Kenya roadshow in September that will see the companies give Kenyans thousands of digital jobs. The US wants Kenya to give them 100,000, 200,000, and 300,000 workers out of the Kenyan youth, without getting into specifics of which corporation promised to employ what number of workers.
