{"id":124451,"date":"2025-11-10T10:05:39","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T10:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2025\/11\/10\/ruto-assigns-himself-80pc-score-on-economy-and-jobs\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T10:05:39","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T10:05:39","slug":"ruto-assigns-himself-80pc-score-on-economy-and-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/ruto-assigns-himself-80pc-score-on-economy-and-jobs\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruto assigns himself 80pc score on economy and jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NAIROBI, Kenya, Nov 10 \u2014 President William Ruto has rated his performance in office as 8 out of 10, asserting that he has \u201cfixed the economy\u201d and boosted job creation.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In an Al Jazeera interview aired on Sunday, Ruto said the country is in a stronger economic position now than when he took over from his predecessor, Uhuru Kenyatta, nearly three years ago.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you look at the three years I have been in office, I made huge commitments and many pledges to the people of Kenya. It is on that basis that the expectations of Kenyans are very high,\u201d Ruto said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHave I met those expectations? I can confidently say that on a scale of 1\u201310, I have done eight. I have fixed the economy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The head of state highlighted a business-environment ranking by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), which placed Kenya sixth among the most-improved countries between 2019 and 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Ruto also pointed to the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE), recently voted Africa\u2019s best-performing stock market in USD terms, as evidence of his administration\u2019s economic reforms.<\/p>\n<p>He cited increased maize and sugar production, alongside a new university funding model that he says has made higher education sustainable, as further proof of a \u201cworking economy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His flagship affordable-housing programme, he added, has created jobs in construction and stimulated other sectors.<\/p>\n<p>Critics, including opposition figures, argue that many Kenyans have yet to feel the benefits of growth, pointing to slow formal-sector job creation, stagnant wages, and rising public debt as ongoing challenges.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, Kenya, Nov 10 \u2014 President William Ruto has rated his performance in office as 8 out of 10, asserting that he has \u201cfixed the economy\u201d and boosted job creation. In an Al Jazeera interview aired on Sunday, Ruto said the country is in a stronger economic position now than when he took over from [&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-124451","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\/124451","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=124451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}