The audacity is unreal: the very regime whose security forces shot at Raila's convoy and nearly took his life during the 2023 protests is now weaponizing his legacy, lecturing us on how much they 'loved' and 'valued' his vision. Buana I can never board such a charade!
We all know there are no permanent enemies in politics, but people should stop pretending that everything between Ruto and Raila was just harmless politics.
Ruto went after Raila personally for years, mocked him, blamed him for political problems and treated him as the enemy of the moment. The people around him will not say this now because how do you speak clearly when your mouth is full?
So keep the “it was just politics” bullshit. Politics does not erase history, and whatever Ruto is launching, naming or associating with Raila today should still be read through his own political survival and interests.
Uhuru used Mzee when it suited him, Ruto fought him when it suited him and later worked with him when circumstances changed. Everybody needed Raila at some point, but let us not manufacture love where there is no love found, no love lost.
Ruto's attacks to Raila were too personal and showed deep hatred, that was not just 'politics'