Uhuru: Invest in right skills

President Uhuru Kenyatta has urged African countries to invest more on skills development.

President Kenyatta said the continent is registering tremendous growth thus requires quality skills to realise its full potential growth.

“As we develop our future workforce, we must start thinking more broadly about our educational investments that will cement our growth in years to come. It is important that we harness the skills and expertise that is critical to growth,” said Uhuru.

Opening the Africa forum on Inclusive Economies at Windsor Golf and Country Club, Uhuru said there is need for African countries to focus on engineering skills to run drilling operations, legal skills to negotiate positions that protect present day assets into the future, and technology skills to run the digital networks that are needed to monitor operations.

Further, he said skill development should focus on outstanding vocational skills to build and maintain these investments which are critical to our economic and intellectual maturity as nations, and to economic and livelihood prospects for our young men and women.

“Africa is rapidly growing its digital footprint and Kenya has established itself as a leader in IT with groundbreaking inclusive products such as M-Pesa and Ushahidi, putting this country on the global map,” he said.