A Drowning Rat Clutching at Straws: William Ruto’s Pathetic Stunt Era
A drowning man will clutch at straws. And that perfectly sums up the desperate, flailing existence of William Ruto right now.
Sensing his plummeting ratings and the fact that nobody is talking about him anymore, his American handlers cooked up yet another cheap stunt - the kind Donald Trump used when he faked his own assassination attempt and keeps staging gun incidents outside the White House.
Calm down, Kipchirchir.
Nobody wants to kill a man who is already visibly dying anyway. Your health is collapsing in real time - you look worse than a corpse that’s been left in the sun for three days. Stop trying to overrate your relevance to our lives. You are not that important.
Concentrate on what you do best: mindless Kikuyu bashing. That’s where your tiny brain actually functions. These Jack Bauer-style action movie stunts don’t suit a rapidly decaying, out-of-breath puppet like you.
The desperation is embarrassing. The more you try to look like a target, the more we see a weak, fading, irrelevant little man gasping for attention as his own body and presidency collapse around him.
Why are we even pretending this is about elections anymore?
The government is fake, the opposition is fake, and most of the political class is just one network of gangsters changing jackets depending on where power is. Kenya is now trapped in a game where the same people loot, defect, reconcile, betray, regroup and return to ask for votes again.
Kenyans made a historic mistake after June 25th 2024. That was the moment the country saw the system clearly, naked and afraid, but instead of forcing a total civic reset, the political class was allowed to reorganize, buy time and return with the same old tricks.
At this point, elections alone cannot save Kenya if the choices are manufactured by the same rotten system. Voting between thieves, brokers, family empires and fake saviours is not democracy; it is managed frustration.
Kenya does not just need another election.
Kenya needs a complete political reset, a new civic consciousness, new accountability, new leadership standards and a public that refuses to be recycled through the same gangster menu every five years.
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I once worked for an American company whose annual revenue was nearly 50% of Kenya’s entire GDP.
The company wanted to set up a manufacturing plant in Kenya and even sent its Vice President to explore the opportunity.
Do you know the VP couldn’t even secure a meeting with the Health CS?
Gatekeepers blocked discussions before they could even begin. Everyone wanted their share first.
The VP flew to Ethiopia instead. He was welcomed like a head of state.
Imagine the jobs, technology transfer, exports, taxes, supplier networks, and investor confidence Kenya lost because of a few selfish individuals protecting personal interests.
Dangote has been here before. He ended up setting a massive cement manufacturing plant in Ethiopia.
Those government officials don’t care as long as they can’t see their share.
It is untenable to shoulder a 1.5% housing levy, 2.75% SHIF deduction, 6% NSSF contribution, and a staggering 30-45% PAYE , only to still grapple with exorbitant school fees, skyrocketing rent, punitive fuel prices, and endless medical fundraisers because SHIF remains woefully inadequate.
KRA thinks business runs like a high school business studies example:
Register a company.
Inject 1M capital.
Sell to John on credit.
John pays in 2 weeks (of course).
Need to expand? Just go to the bank
Business runs smoothly 12 months a year.
Employees paid on time.
Taxes? PAYE sorted.
Meanwhile in reality: delayed payments, zero cash flow, expensive credit, and you’re still expected to remit taxes on money you haven’t even received.
But yes… “comply”
The Man With the Bottomless Hole
And the old man spoke.
He told the people there was a man with a hole inside him, a hunger so deep that no matter what you poured into it, it would still cry for more.
He reached for taxes, and still it was not enough.
He reached for levies, and still it was not enough.
He cut the worker’s payslip through the housing levy, and still it was not enough.
He came for the people with the Finance Bill, demanding even more from a country already crushed by the cost of living, and Kenyans rose up and rejected it, but still the hunger remained.
Then the people asked him, did it get filled?
And the old man shook his head.
No, it did not.
Because that kind of hole never fills.
It grows on the sweat of workers whose money is sliced before it reaches home.
It grows on the pain of biashara people who are forced to survive under endless taxes, endless pressure and endless lies.
It grows on the backs of farmers, commuters and ordinary families who pay more for everything while those in power talk about sacrifice from the comfort of office.
And now he returns again through fuel, because fuel in Kenya is not just fuel. It is the matatu fare, the food on the shelf, the cost of farming, the price of moving goods, and the daily burden carried by every household. So when fuel goes up, it is not one sector being touched. It is the whole country being squeezed.
And once again the people asked, surely by now it must be enough?
And again the old man answered.
No.
That hole does not fill with taxes.
It does not fill with levies.
It does not fill with rejected bills.
It does not fill with the suffering of Kenyans.
The more you feed it, the wider it opens.
The more you endure, the more it demands.
That is why Kenyans must never normalize this punishment. Because this is not leadership meant to lift a nation. It is an appetite that keeps returning to the same tired people, asking for more blood, more sweat and more silence.
And the lesson of the old man remains the lesson for Kenya today.
You cannot fill a hole that was never meant to be filled.
You can only refuse to keep feeding it.
#RejectFuelPrices
Watched an Alex Mwakideu interview the other day he was talking to the legendary judge from Vioja Mahakamani. Millennials, you know her ~That no-nonsense mama who took zero nonsense in that courtroom.
Now here’s the wild part they never had scripts. Not a single one. They’d just show up, pick roles, agree on the case, and go. Cameras rolling, take one, done.
So every punchline Alphonse Makacha and Dot Makokha ever dropped? Pure improvisation. No rehearsal. Nothing prepared. Just talent doing its thing in real time.
Kenya really had something special with that crew.
And here’s the part that gets me AG Amos Wako was fully behind the show. He’d supply them with real court cases and actual judgments from Kenyan courts. So when the judge passed her verdict on screen, it wasn’t made up. It was legally accurate, straight from the constitution.
Comedy on the surface. Civic education underneath.
That’s a level of craft most productions today can’t touch.
Golden era. Salute to those legends. 🫡