Businessmen, professionals congratulate President-elect Uhuru Kenyatta for his win in repeat poll

The Hood Group Businessmen and Professionals led by the Chairman Mr Nderitu Mwangi at Intercontinental Hotel on October 31, 2017 (George Orido/Standard)

Members of the Hood Group Businessmen and Professionals have congratulated President Uhuru Kenyatta for his win in the just concluded repeat poll terming it a great step towards nation building and restoration of investor confidence in the economy.

Addressing the press at the Intercontinental Hotel in Nairobi, the business consortium asked Kenya to end the politics that has created anxiety and negatively affected businesses across the country.

They said it is time to heal and get back to business and grow Kenya form a middle level economy to a developed nation.

“It has been the longest electioneering period leading to businesses losing billions of shillings and almost running into a trillion,” they said in the statement.

The group urged the expedited swearing in of the President –elect Uhuru Kenyatta the soonest time possible.

“On behalf of our members I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate His Excellency the President for his re-election,” read the Chairman of the consortium Mr Nderitu Mwangi.

He also congratulated all Kenyans for keeping peace during the electioneering period save for a few places that were affected by violence.

He noted that Kenyans live together as brothers and sisters in peace except during the time of elections adding that no Kenyan wakes up in the morning with the intention of killing a neighbour.

“We need to work hard to put on the table for our children, dress them and take them to school,” he said expressing the group’s best wishes to all candidates currently sitting the KCPE and KCSE examinations.

They noted that while it was a right to picket it should not infringe on the rights of others and stressed the need to have designated picketing spaces outside the CBD.

The group pointed out the violence reported in parts of the country prior to the repeat election as perturbing and asked the Government to move with speed to investigate any perpetrators of the violence so they may be brought to book.

“I ask the politicians to practice modern politics, politics of development and putting this country first – to build the future of its people,” he said adding calls for peace and stressing that violence is not in the options for Kenyans and must be avoided at all costs.