{"id":119310,"date":"2025-08-06T08:10:52","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T08:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2025\/08\/06\/ruto-dismisses-hustler-fund-critics-following-khrc-report\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T08:10:52","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T08:10:52","slug":"ruto-dismisses-hustler-fund-critics-following-khrc-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/ruto-dismisses-hustler-fund-critics-following-khrc-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruto dismisses Hustler Fund critics following KHRC report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NAIROBI, Kenya, Aug 6 \u2013 President William Ruto has come out to strongly defend the Hustler Fund, days after a Kenya Human Rights Commission report (KHRC) called for its scrapping arguing that it has failed to spur enterprise or create meaningful jobs.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Speaking during a roundtable event with the private sector on Wednesday, President Ruto stated that the fund has been a success after disbursing Sh72 billion to empower 26 million Kenyans since it was established in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>He castigated his critics for expressing negativity towards the government projects.<\/p>\n<p>The Kenya Human Rights Commission report cited that for every 500 Shillings disbursed, 340 Shillings is effectively lost.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, Kenya, Aug 6 \u2013 President William Ruto has come out to strongly defend the Hustler Fund, days after a Kenya Human Rights Commission report (KHRC) called for its scrapping arguing that it has failed to spur enterprise or create meaningful jobs. Speaking during a roundtable event with the private sector on Wednesday, President Ruto [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}