@ledamalekina Can a rural maasai leave his farm and go live in those houses?.
Let us have our priorities right. NHC should have been funded so as to continue with their mandate which is housing. Your rural people need water, feed and markets and not housing.
If I were William Ruto's political adviser, I would tell him something no one in his inner circle has the courage to say:
Don't run in 2027.
Politics is unforgiving. It does not reward stubbornness; it punishes it.
The greatest danger facing you is not the opposition; it is the illusion created by those who survive by telling you what you want to hear. They clap at every speech, celebrate every rally, and call every crowd "historic." They are not measuring public opinion; they are protecting their paychecks.
Do not mistake the privileges of office for popularity. A convoy is not love. A State House reception is not public approval. A crowd assembled by power is not the same as a nation willing to vote for you.
Every ruler eventually reaches the point where the mirror tells one story and the people tell another. Wise leaders believe the people. Proud leaders believe the mirror.
You have spent more than thirty years climbing to the summit of Kenyan politics. Don't spend your final chapter proving that the hardest fall is the one from the highest mountain.
There comes a point when remaining in the race stops looking like courage and starts looking like an inability to read the times.
Leave while retirement is still a choice. If you insist on staying, don't be surprised when the ballot box becomes the harshest political adviser you have ever ignored.
Random Thought... the next voting block that will be gone after Mt. Kenya will be the 3m+ salaried workers.
1. Affordable Housing has entered its 3rd year...
2. ...collected about Ksh. 200 billion from already strained salaried workers, assuming 6.5 b per month...
3. But only completed about 8,000 houses, whose beneficiaries remain largely mysterious. (Personally i am yet to meet anyone who is a beneficiary for these houses)
4. Even at a cost of say 2 m per house, that is 16 billion, its going to be hard to explain where the 200 billion went.
When we argued the levy was not a good idea we were chastised, soon salaried workers will ask for reconciliation. Even audited financials can't be found on the program's website.