The Linda Mwananchi team today met H.E. Kalonzo Musyoka to deliberate on the way forward in our shared commitment to the people of Kenya.
Our mission is to transform this country by building a system of governance that is more accountable, inclusive, and responsive to the needs and aspirations of every Kenyan.
Together, united by purpose and driven by the will of the people, we will continue to champion meaningful change and a better future for our nation.
Didmus Barasa was today chased away by residents in Kimilili after the money he was distributing ran out midway. His vehicles and public address system were damaged as the crowd chanted, “Sisi ni Sifuna” and “Wantam.”
Kalonzo Musyoka: In 3 days’ time, we’ll officially enter the election year; we have no time. This is why Ruto has panicked together with his team. I want to assure Kenyans that if I’ll be the last man to drive Ruto out, I will
Watching Ruto speak about investor confidence, economic recovery and booming opportunities sometimes feels like watching The Truman Show, where one man lives inside a carefully manufactured world and everyone surrounding him helps keep the illusion alive.
Truman wakes up each morning believing his peaceful town is real, never knowing that the houses, roads, weather, news and people around him are all part of a giant television production controlled from behind the scenes.
Ruto appears to wake up inside a similar political production, where advisers arrive with attractive charts, ministers praise economic growth, bloggers celebrate imaginary achievements and officials assure him that Kenyans are finally enjoying the fruits of his policies.
Outside that carefully managed set, businesses are closing, workers are losing jobs, traders are being buried under taxes and people who once supported entire families are now borrowing money for food, rent and school fees.
In Truman’s world, his wife, best friend, neighbours and colleagues are actors who know the truth but continue playing their roles, smiling at him and repeating reassuring lines whenever he begins suspecting that something is wrong.
Ruto has Cabinet Secretaries, economic advisers, governors, MPs and government propagandists doing exactly that, constantly telling him the economy is performing well, even when almost every Kenyan knows someone whose life has collapsed under his government.
Whenever Truman attempts to escape his artificial town, the producers create traffic jams, accidents, storms and frightening warnings meant to push him back into the comfortable lie they have built around him.
Whenever Kenyans challenge Ruto’s economic story, his government produces another excuse involving global conditions, past governments, dishonest traders, lazy young people or citizens who supposedly cannot recognise the opportunities surrounding them.
The illusion begins collapsing when Truman notices a studio light falling from the sky, people repeating the same movements and a radio station accidentally describing his exact location as he drives through town.
Ruto’s falling studio lights are the empty shops, auctioned homes, unpaid salaries, struggling schools, closed businesses and formerly comfortable Kenyans who have suddenly been reduced to begging relatives and friends for survival.
The clearest sign that the set is collapsing is that the economic success Ruto describes cannot be found anywhere outside government speeches, political rallies, State House dinners and businesses owned by people close to his administration.
The only people who appear to recognise this booming economy are Ruto, his friends, government contractors and officials whose salaries, allowances, tenders and lifestyles are protected by the same taxpayers being told to tighten their belts.
In The Truman Show, millions watching from outside understand that Truman’s world is fake, but the man living at the centre of it remains trapped inside the story created for him by people benefiting from the production.
That is Ruto’s Kenya today, a giant political studio where those surrounding the President keep reading from the investor-confidence script, even as the real country outside the cameras becomes poorer, angrier and more desperate.
The question is whether Ruto genuinely believes the production around him, or whether he knows the economy is collapsing for ordinary Kenyans and simply expects everyone to keep acting until the final credits roll.
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President William Ruto: It was in that spirit that I invited Prof Hiroyuki Hino and Prof Anyang’ Nyong’o and their distinguished colleagues to begin examining Kenya beyond Vision 2030. Last week, I had the honour of receiving their proposals on strategic guidelines for Kenya’s long-term national transformation. Kenya can become a prosperous high income industrialized, and globally competitive nation within one generation, provided we remain united in purpose and unwavering in our commitment to long-term national transformation
President William Ruto: Vision 2030 set a target of Kenya becoming an upper-middle-income country by 2030. So far, we are off target. This is not a criticism of Vision 2030, nor is it a reason for disappointment; rather, it is an opportunity to proudly learn from our successes, reflect with honesty on where we have fallen short, and define together Kenya’s next long-term vision