Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua has urged Kenya Kwanza lawmakers to be ambassadors of the Hustler Fund.
Speaking on Monday, December 5, when he opened the National Assembly Majority Party Parliamentary conference on Legislative Matters at Windsor Golf Club, the DP stated that the government will fully involve Members of Parliament in the rolling out of the Hustlers Fund.
“We are urging you to be ambassadors of the Fund during the recess. We would like to urge you to use the recess to explain to our people about the importance of the fund, its operations and importantly urge them to repay the money they borrow,” the DP said.
Millions of Kenyans have registered to get access to the billions of funds that have been made available by the government.
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They are accessing the money via the USSD Code *254# through any of three mobile phone numbers: Safaricom, Airtel, and Telkom. They are expected to settle the loan within 14 days of acquiring it.
“Kindly explain to the traders and those in the informal sector that this is a good fund and that once they get the money they need to pay. This is the responsibility we wish you to carry during the recess,” Gachagua told the MPs.
He said it was retrogressive for any leader to tell borrowers to take the loans and fail to pay.
A section of Azimio leaders has termed the hustler fund illegal saying the parliament was not involved in the process.
"The hustler fund is illegal. William Ruto doesn’t have any money to give Kenyans for free. Parliament has not passed any budget with billions of shillings to give Kenyans for free! Stop lying to Kenyans! We must stop this illegality," Ledama claimed.
