President William Ruto was on Wednesday, January 4, put to task to explain who is managing the Hustler Fund during a roundtable interview with journalists.
Addressing the journalists at State House, the Head of State noted that the Husler Fund was fully dependent on technology.
"I decided that we are going to use the benefit of technology to run this Hustler Fund and that is why it is successful. If we had gone the route of forming a committee in every village or constituency, we would not even have formed the committee, leave alone disbursing the fund. The fund only involves three; the borrower, a mobile phone, and technology," Ruto stated.
The President also mentioned that he would take responsibility incase the Husler Fund fails to succeed.
"I agree that a process is very important, but the results are more important, what matters is Hustler Fund is working very well. If something goes wrong, President William Ruto will take responsibility," he said.
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The President addressed a variety of issues including HELB which has ignited a debate in the recent past of the Head of State announced that it would be scrapped.
"As a government, even if we look at Kenya Kwanza manifesto, we will put together HELB, KUCCPS, and University Funding Board so that we will not have one institution doing funding, another places students in universities and colleges and they do not share notes. This is what leads to confusion because students continue to join universities with no enough funding and [we] find ourselves here," Ruto stated.
