Nairobi Governor Johnson Sakaja has said youth will be paid Sh2500 weekly in a tree planting programme yet to be started.
Sakaja said with the Kazi Mtaani abolished by President William Ruto, a programme has to be started to keep the youth busy and enable them to earn a living.
"We agreed with our President that the young people that we are focusing on, instead of what we had as kazi mtaani, we are soon launching a programme of tree planting.
"Our young people will be engaged in and they will be getting Sh25oo per week. They will help us plant trees and maintain trees," he said.
He added the project will also help reduce crime as the youth will have a task keeping them busy.
This is not the first time the Governor is emphasising the need to plant trees in the city.
In October, Sakaja said there will be a proper tree-planting exercise that will be done by the county and the private sector.
Speaking during the handing over of Nairobi Metropolitan Services back to the county, Sakaja said it will be in a bid to bring Nairobi above and beyond good status to the city it was before.
"If you go up KICC, which is my former office, and you look around, you see three ecological zones, there is the green side, then there is the brown side and then there is a side that looks like a desert."
"We must plan trees in the city and bring back its glory; the green city," he said.
