President William Ruto has expressed disappointment with professionals in the engineering sector for not being vocal in supporting the Finance Bill 2023.
Speaking in Naivasha on Wednesday during the fourth Engineering Partnerships Convention, Ruto said he had not heard engineers' voice as debate on the ambitious Bill rages on in the country.
"I was expecting the engineers of Kenya to support the Finance Bill, I'm surprised that you are quiet. I have not heard your voice," he said.
Ruto added that it was the engineers who were going to benefit from the Housing Fund yet they had not shown any support for the Bill.
"You are the people who are going to benefit from the Housing Plan. You are the people who are going to implement our super highway, it is you who will implement our universal health coverage," he said.
The President further said the engineers had left him to do the donkey work in pushing for the enactment of the Bill.
"You want me to do the heavy lifting and you to sit at the end waiting to reap the benefits. This is not fair, we should all be in this together,"Ruto said.
