DP Ruto’s Bag of Goodies to Narok County Residents [PHOTOS]

Deputy President William Ruto on Wednesday was in Narok County where he opened new classrooms, presented buses to schools and witnessed the connections of homesteads to the power grid.

DP Ruto opened a newly-constructed Science laboratory funded by Narok County Government at Sekenani Girls High School and handed over school buses to Sekenani Boarding Primary School and Leshuta Primary School.

“A well-built and amply equipped education institution is a platform of pride and source of hope in the community; it is an assurance there is capacity for progress and growth,” he said in a Facebook post.

DP Ruto also witnessed the connection of the homesteads to the power grid under the Last Mile Connectivity Programme at Sekenani, Narok West, Narok County.

He said: “Electricity changes the quality of life in a home for everyone in the family. It brings light, connectivity and convenience. Above all, it closes the disparities between urban and rural communities”

However, some Kenyans termed the connection of temporary structures to the national grid a waste of national resources.

 

Here’s some of the reactions:

@Petro Peter: It beats no logic to install electricity in a temporal muddy structure. Basic education dictated to us that electricity is a secondary need and housing is a Basic requirement. I wish you could talk on how to improve on this.

@Wilfred Manyi: From other front, these manyattas are in themselves tourist attractions…installing electricity will compromise the authenticity of this key product. Probably a balance is needed to ensure development also guarantees the sustainable use of available resources for prosperity.

 

Lokpunya Lemeray: What exactly is the need to put electricity to an empty stomach because of the high cost of living your administration has given us? What will it help to have electricity with no medicines to our hospitals? You promised us too much just to receive the worst.

@Habil Were: Which one is more important, building a decent and habitable home for the poor woman or getting her electricity in that dilapidated shanty. You might have done that for PR but some of us are wiser. We just don’t buy it.