President William Ruto has criticized those who opposed the JKIA-Adani deal saying that they have no clue on how the airport is going to be built.
Speaking from Taita Taveta during the commissioning of KSh11 billion Devki Iron Ore Pelletization Plant, the Head of State noted that most of those who opposed the deal have never stepped foot at an airport.
“The people who don’t want to invest anything in them, we glorify them as if they were something. I saw them saying that those who stopped the upgrading of our airport are heroes, mashujaa kitu gani? Airport pale iko kwa runway, inafuja maji, yetu hapa Kenya sijui ni ya aina gani.
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What gain do you get when you stop the building of an airport in your country? You have no clue how it’s going to be built, wale wanapinga, ata hawajai kanyaga airport, unapinga tu.” said President Ruto.
According to the President there are evil spirts who are against everything positive being proposed by the government including the affordable housing.
He continued by promising to have the airport renovated even after the deal was canceled following the issuance of an arrest warrant against Adani Group boss Gautam Adani and several other executives following an alleged $250 million bribe to the Indian government.
“We are going to build a new airport in Kenya. We may have stopped Adani from building it I was confident he was going to build our airports but because of the law that bars us from engaging with people who have cases.
That doesn’t mean we’re not going to build airport, we’re going to build a new framework and work with people who believe in this country to get a new airport.” he said
