President William Ruto has criticized online users for using the internet for negative purposes.
Speaking at the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE) ceremony on Wednesday, Ruto said that the government delivered free Wi-Fi across the country to help Kenyans generate income.
According to him, many had recently been using it for what he termed as ‘Kusalimiana’ adding that Kenyans were sending ‘encouraging messages’.
“It would be a very good experience, apart from what is going on now, the platform is being used ‘kusalimiana’.
“Sometimes you can become the architect of your own troubles. When we delivered Wi-Fi across Kenya and made it free, we intended it to be used for good purposes, but sometimes it is used to send us encouraging messages,” he said with a giggle.
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Ruto Details his Plan for the Free Wi- Fi
The Head of State went on to state that his plan for the last mile connectivity project was to help the youth make income by engaging in e Commerce.
He highlighted forex exchange and trading on government bonds as some of the ways the youth should use internet connectivity to make money.
“We deliver the last mile connectivity using our digital superhighway. We are now expanding to every ward in Kenya so that we can give a chance to young people across the country to have access to digital jobs and digital commerce.
“Among the digital commerce that I am looking forward to is trading on government bonds, shares at the exchange and also forex trading so that the many people who we have connected to internet and Wi-Fi across Kenya, as we make internet more accessible, then it can be used to access digital jobs and we can do more e commerce,” added Ruto.
Safaricom to Build a new Trading Platform
At the same time, the president announced that the CEO of Safaricom peter Ndegwa had assured him that the company was building a company to enhance ecommerce in the country.
According to Ruto, the company in collaboration with the National Treasury and other stakeholders would be giving him a report in the following three months on the progress of the project.
“The CEO of Safaricom has given me his assurance that he will use his robust network to make sure that Kenyans have a platform where they can do business and enhance pour e commerce footprint.
“I have interacted this morning with different stakeholders and working with the National Treasury, Central Bank and good companies like Safaricom for us to develop retail trading of both shares in the stock exchange and also bonds.
“I have been assured that in the next three month I will hold somebody to account on that, that we will see more Kenyans participating in bond trading, shares trading and forex trading, and this should be possible online,” added the president.
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