I've been watching this week closely, and this is why I think Ruto wins in 2027. He wasn't doing press conferences in Nairobi. He was in Kajiado inspecting a Sh9.4 billion, 65km Illasit Rombo Njukini Taveta road that cuts travel from about two hours to under 45 minutes, a Sh2.7 billion power line, last mile electricity, markets, housing and KMTC hostels. That is the kind of work that actually lowers costs for traders and farmers. That is what convinces me.
People from Mt. Kenya West are free to go back to their usual tribal cocoon and if that is what you are calling the "biggest political defections" you are being absolutely dishonest.
We may be heading into one of the biggest defection seasons in Kenyan political history, because once politicians smell a weakening centre, loyalty disappears very fast.
By 2027, some of the loudest people defending Ruto today may be the same ones explaining why they “listened to the ground” and crossed over.
We don't need a regurgitation of what the President has done.This SOTNA must inform the political trajectory of President Ruto,we want to see half of central ministers fired for failing the President at every turn.This must be a radical SOTNA.
Olkalau has exposed the truth: this is not chess, it is raw numbers. The outcome confirms what many have refused to admit the Kikuyu vote will not carry President Ruto in 2027. But Kenya is bigger than one region. Across the country, millions who are seeing real development and feeling the impact of his leadership will have the final say and they will vote him back.
"The aftermath of an Israeli attack on a displacement camp in Khan Younis. Israel has designated Al Mawasi a safe zone, but its bombed the camp, killing dozens of people, including children, as they slept in their tents"
@Hind_Gaza reporting at the weekend
This is the scariest thing I have seen today, its so painful to see a very young sister fighting for her life. This is sooooo painful. Women we are our own enemies, this young girl is hospitalized with servere injury because of another lady.
@citizentvkenya@ntvkenya
@waikwawanyoike Constitution envisages an INVESTIGATION and a HEARING. The investigation is limited to 10 days. A hearing then follows and it does not have a deadline - for good reason. Having chosen to proceed in plenary, Senate needed to investigate then hold a hearing. It proceeded to hearing
Ethiopia and its mouthpieces are in denial about their reality! Their failed narrative, which they peddle to the region, only reveals that they are the architects of the chaos.
The truth is, Ethiopia stands on the brink of collapse, unable to manage its internal ethnic conflicts. Its economy is in ruins, to the point where Abiy Ahmed is selling off military supplies just to make ends meet. Meanwhile, Somalia is rising and moving beyond a long chapter of civil war, a chapter that Ethiopia helped prolong.
Ethiopia is not just faltering; it is on the verge of total disintegration. The world needs to see through their lies!
I am appalled at GenZ who calls Hon. Raila all sort of names.We need to extend grace to this father of our Nation if our aspirations is to have a better Kenya.We shouldn't allow few folks who reads history from behind to mislead us on what Raila stood for.
Hi @thisafricangirl , you have made allegations, based on what you call "research", that @RailaOdinga was bought by Kibaki in 2002 and that is why he supported him in that election.
My work is to educate you and your ilk, who try to rewrite history in order to mask your ethnic prejudices and bad electoral choices. You voted William Ruto, but now your problem is that Raila is in good terms with him! The nerve.
Anyway, here we go...
I am certain that your shallow research hasn't yet enlightened you to the fact that the NARC-Rainbow Coalition which brought Kibaki to power was a creation of the one and only Raila Odinga. While Kibaki, @mamangilu and Wamalwa Kijana, all of National Alliance Kenya (NAK), held endless hotel meetings which Moi derogatorily dismissed as "too much tea over nothing", it took Raila's leaving Kanu and uniting everyone under the Rainbow movement, for the opposition to be strong enough to actually challenge Moi.
Now, if anyone had money to buy Raila, and if the latter had been up for sale, the people who had money were the Kanu side running Uhuru Kenyatta for President. But why did Raila need to be bought when everyone acknowledged at that time that he was both the brains behind NARC-Rainbow, as well as the single uniting power behind the movement?
You need to find the video of Kibaki's cardiologist, Dr Gikonyo, giving an interesting anecdote, for context. Gikonyo has confessed many times that after Kibaki was injured in the accident and was being flown to hospital in London, Raila walked into the flight and found that Kibaki was to be flown in Economy, despite all his injuries. Apparently the issue was money. Raila then mobilised a few people to carry Kibaki to Business, before proceeding to swipe his own card to pay for the sick Kibaki's upgrade. So Kibaki had money to buy Raila, but not enough to spend on his own treatment and travel comfort, while carrying life-threatening injuries? Which shallow philosophy is that?
Let us talk about the Nyachae deal. It is public knowledge that immediately after the agreement, as Raila left Nyachae's house, the latter made a comment to his close associates that since they both came from Nyanza, he would not be honouring Raila's desire to be Prime Minister if he won. Someone immediately alerted Raila, who, quite rightfully, decided to trash the agreement. But even before that, common sense and intelligence calculations already indicated that the best way to neutralise Uhuru and Kanu was for the opposition to run a Kikuyu candidate. The choice narrowed down to Kibaki or George Muthengi Saitoti. But Saitoti had only recently left Kanu and was still unwelcome as a national opposition candidate. Kibaki was the more sensible option.
People like you @thisafricangirl dwell in the pit of ignorance and shallow sloganeering, where unchallenged defamation thrives. There is no research that can change historical facts. And the fact, acknowledged by everyone except you historical dwarfs, is that Raila delivered the presidency to Kibaki in 2002 and was thanked with donkey kicks. But obviously, your biggest issue is that you think Raila should hate people on your behalf and carry your bitterness at nearly 80 years of age. You have already fashioned yourself as a young leader. What gripe then do you still have with someone whose best days, according to you, are in the past?
I join those who have pointed out that your research should focus on that Uasin Gishu scholarship scandal. It is inconceivable that you can be an expert in national politics but have no ability to remedy local village challenges among your people. Besides, you and the shallow revolutionaries without a cause will not trivialise the works of the country's foremost statesman while we history guards are still here!
The only go-to line for the anti Raila brigade - "Oh he would not have been better". How do you know? "Oh look what he has done now" - Who told you he isn't serving it cold? Well done to Luo Nyanza for welcoming Rais. I have been a Luo politically all my life & I am proud of it!
Those who voted for Ruto are crying the most about his administration's policies. Those who sent the mganga to Bondo are crying the most about his decisions. The pictures & songs they sung, the names they called us in 2022 is still haunting us. Finya hao! Anguka na hawa!