Uhuru Tells Teachers to Encourage Students to Pursue Blue-Collar Jobs.

At the 45th Kenya Secondary School Heads Association (KESSHA) summit in Mombasa on Wednesday, President Kenyatta urged teachers to expose children to the various ways they might earn a lot of money and not to limit them to office occupations.

According to him, blue collar jobs such as farming and welding pay much more than white collar jobs such as teaching.

"Start moving away from telling our children that the only job you can have is a white collar job. That he should be a clerk in a bank, banks are going digital!!,"  uhuru said.

"Leo hii kuna wakulima wanatengeneza pesa kushinda walimu, madaktari na professors. Today as we progress in ship building we are looking for quality welders and the few that we have are old men. These are paying jobs.” The president added.

President Kenyatta also emphasized that youngsters should be encouraged to exploit their capabilities, giving billionaire Bill Gates as an example, claiming that he dropped out of school and built a significant fortune through his market skills.

President Uhuru Interacts with schools heads in Mombasa today.

"This is where we need to take our children, to encourage our children. Use your gifts, that is the future. And you teachers have the responsibility to be the ones to pull that gift out of that child to be proud of himself for the service he delivers to the country,”

"Billionaires like Bill Gates and the rest dropped out in high school and the money they have today is more than what Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi have combined." The president pointed out.

Uhuru went on to remark that many chances in the education sector have been created under his leadership, and that he should be applauded for it.