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Housing project: Why number of workers do not add up

Defence Principal Secretary Patrick Mariru and Laikipa MP Jane Kagiri inspecting Nanyuki Affordable Housing Programme. [Boniface Gikandi, Standard]

The latest revelation that the affordable housing program (AHP) has created almost half a million jobs so far casts a shadow of doubt on the exact number of opportunities this initiative has offered as announced by the government.

Barely a month after his Ukambani tour, where he pronounced that the AHP has created 600,000 jobs, President William Ruto on Thursday said the program has employed 428,000.

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