Super petrol was kshs 159.12 and diesel kshs 140 per litre when Ruto became President.While campaigning he had promised to reduce these prices.Super petrol is now kshs 214.25 and diesel kshs 242.92. State house budget was kshs 4.7 Billion when he took over and it is now kshs 17 Billion.Misplaced priorities by a Man who doesn’t care for the Country.
Fuel prices rise, matatu fares jump by 50%, electricity costs increase by another Sh4.40 per kWh through new EPRA levies, rent keeps soaring, and food prices climb with every transport adjustment yet salaries remain frozen in time.
At the same time, workers are stripped through a 1.5% housing levy, 2.75% SHIF deduction, 6% NSSF contribution, and crushing PAYE rates of up to 45%, only to still fundraise for hospital bills because public systems barely function.
This is no longer an economy built for citizens; it is an extraction machine where every crisis is transferred to the ordinary Kenyan while wages remain stagnant. Tough times are slowly becoming a permanent economic condition.
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.
William Ruto's administration has reportedly spent a staggering Sh89 billion since taking office in 2022, with State House expenditures alone accounting for a significant Sh36 billion by March 2026. This level of spending raises questions about fiscal discipline and resource allocation within the government.
The Taxes and Levies charged on fuel in Kenya constitutes about 80% of the actual cost of the product itself. The ripple effect of surges in fuel prices on overall market dynamics places an obligation on the government to make concessions, when necessary, to cushion consumers from global spikes in prices. While the reduction of VAT from 16% to 13% is one such concession, it is far from adequate in the grand scheme of things, considering Kenyans already pay the highest pump prices regionally.
The increase announced by EPRA indicates tone-deaf leadership that ignores the plight of the people. This is when the role of our parliamentarians in representation and oversight must be activated. The pain of wananchi must never go unrecognised or unresolved.
Today i announce my retirement from football, Four different countries six different clubs, A boy from Muthurwa with a big dream, carrying a Nations pride everytime i stepped onto the pitch. To my family, friends, agent, the fans and the coaching staff that helped me throughout
How does the Salaries and Remuneration Commission (SRC) always “lack money” for doctors, nurses, and Junior Secondary School teachers yet never for Members of Parliament?
The hypocrisy is staggering. Speaker Wetang’ula pockets KSh 25,000 every month for airtime alone, more than the entire monthly salary of a JSS teacher earning KSh 17,000. The irony is brutal: those who heal the sick and mould the nation’s children are told to be patient, to sacrifice, to wait for “better economic times.” Meanwhile, the political class fattens itself on privilege as if public funds were private inheritance.
A state that values airtime over education and indulgence over healthcare is a state that has lost its soul.
Fellow Kenyans, we cannot be bystanders as Ruto drives Kenya into a failed state. A government that teargases its people - men and women, the elderly, and children - in a church, has lost all common decency. It has become den of criminals.
We demand that President Ruto must tender a public apology to Kenyans and in particular the worshippers in Witima Church in Nyeri, and get the policemen who perpetrated today's heinous act arraigned in court within the next 24 hours.
We dualized Kenol-Marua road so that state ghouls can quickly deliver teargas to Churches in Nyeri? I will keep saying “development” will not make any sense once our national values are abandoned. Roads are nice, but I will choose freedom and democracy any day.
They take their wives and children to Aga Khan’s Princess Zahra Pavilion, The Nairobi Hospital North Wing, MP Shah’s VIP Suites, Gertrude’s Pediatric “platinum” floors, Karen Hospital’s executive wing, and Mater’s private annex ; hospitals where one night costs more than what most Kenyans earn in six months.
Meanwhile, the very people who employ them, the sovereign citizens of this country, are left to line up at Nyalgunga Dispensary where a doctor was last seen in 2006, and where paracetamol is rationed like contraband.
This is the Kenyan state stripped bare:
Five-star healthcare for the rulers, survival-mode improvisation for the ruled. How do leaders who swear oaths to serve the public justify living in medical comfort that rivals Dubai, while their own citizens are forced to travel 40km for an injection?
How do they celebrate SHA as a “revolution” while ensuring their own families never step foot in the facilities they impose on everyone else?
How do they justify building VIP treatment into their insurance packages while public hospitals run out of syringes?
Diplomatic way of saying STOLEN. Who has the capacity to walk away with 300 B of Government Bonds without Treasury & CBKs knowledge/complicity? Kenyans are now almost numb with this LOOTING. Mind-boggling IMPUNITY.Mta-do ??
So many brilliant performances today, not least by Eze, but this guy was once again our rock, our general, our warrior-in-chief. Arsenal’s best signing of the Millennium. @_DeclanRice
This is a terrible sight to behold. Why allow people to build at the very site of crossing? Wildlife - the great migration is what sustains the Reserve. This issue has come in the media before but apparently nothing was ever done about it. REALLY why this?
My goodness, 145billion for one stadium si basi actual cost ya building and upgrading the airport would have tripled as well? We’re dealing with hyenas.
Raila Odinga was a true champion of democracy. A child of independence, he endured decades of struggle and sacrifice for the broader cause of freedom and self-governance in Kenya. Time and again, I personally saw him put the interests of his country ahead of his own ambitions. Like few other leaders anywhere, he was willing to choose the path of peaceful reconciliation without compromising his core values. Through his life, Raila Odinga set an example not just for Kenyans, but across Africa and around the world. I know he will be missed. Michelle and I send our deepest condolences to his family and to the people of Kenya.
You wake up at 5AM not to build hospitals, not to fix roads, not to feed children .
But to wrap Parliament in wire like a crime scene.
You barricade the city like you’re under siege. But the only thing you’re hiding from is the truth.
You don’t fear bandits. You don’t fear cartels. You don’t fear the murderers in government.
You fear the teacher who speaks out. The youth who stands up. The mother who says ‘enough.’
That’s who you fear. Because you know ; once the people wake up, you can’t govern them with lies anymore.