{"id":125225,"date":"2025-11-23T11:05:57","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T11:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2025\/11\/23\/maraga-calls-rutos-bluff-as-he-releases-five-point-economy-revamp-plan\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T11:05:57","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T11:05:57","slug":"maraga-calls-rutos-bluff-as-he-releases-five-point-economy-revamp-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/maraga-calls-rutos-bluff-as-he-releases-five-point-economy-revamp-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Maraga calls Ruto\u2019s bluff as he releases five point economy revamp plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NAIROBI, Kenya Nov 23 \u2013 Former Chief Justice David Maraga has unveiled a five-point agenda aimed at revamping the economy<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Maraga announced that he would shrink the cost of politics, hard-capping debt service near Ksh 600 billion, cancelling fraudulent or idle contracts, and freezing non-essential borrowing.<\/p>\n<p>On job creation, the 2027 presidential hopeful said he would introduce reforms intended to allow the capital markets to play their rightful role in nation-building and allowing free-flowing capital to boost productivity and investment.<\/p>\n<p>He also vowed to remove unnecessary regulations, hiking the cost of doing business in Kenya.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will introduce the National Youth Apprenticeship program, which will fund upskilling for youth ages 18\u201330, with employer rebates and guaranteed placements\u2014with a projected 4 million youth working by Year 3, yielding an estimated Ksh576 billion per year in new revenue once scaled,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n<p>On labour mobility, Maraga vowed to prioritise implementing an infrastructure to unlock immense wealth through Kenya\u2019s intellectual property rights, which will play a key role in producing and exporting ideas, patented inventions, products, and services.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will face corruption head-on. We do not need new laws. We just have to implement the law, starting with me. My family and I will not do business with government. As my record on digitisation shows during my tenure as Chief Justice, we will digitise all procurement and government business,\u201d the former CJ said.<\/p>\n<p>He concluded by stating that his administration will pursue aggressive prosecution and recoveries if a bid to eradicate corrupt practices in Kenya.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, Kenya Nov 23 \u2013 Former Chief Justice David Maraga has unveiled a five-point agenda aimed at revamping the economy. Maraga announced that he would shrink the cost of politics, hard-capping debt service near Ksh 600 billion, cancelling fraudulent or idle contracts, and freezing non-essential borrowing. On job creation, the 2027 presidential hopeful said he [&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-125225","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\/125225","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=125225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}