Some of us just look forward to a future where there is no government sponsored abductions and killings, respect for the rule of law and constitutionalism, a government where systems work and government spending is prioritized to benefit the people.
You can’t give long speeches about 2060 when your government is abducting and killing innocent youths today , just because of tweets.
Of what use are speeches about 2060 when in 2026 we have sick Kenyans in hospitals sharing beds, students dropping out of school for lack of fees and those who struggle to complete school can’t find jobs?
Why promise a golden future when you are currently destroying the present?
Him who can’t fix today can’t guarantee tomorrow. If they tell you that they can, those are conmen and snake oil salesmen lying to you.
Ruto talks a lot about Singapore but everything he does points to a journey towards a failed state.
Singapore wasn’t built by words but on actions that ensure accountability on how public money is spent, efficient systems that prioritize productivity, not those loaded by corruption captured by the executive and used in his quest to be the richest African alive.
You can’t build Singapore by bribing voters with mattress and cooking gas, you build Singapore by creating an environment where people can work, earn money and buy themselves mattress and cooking gas.
While we aspire to achieve first world status, Ruto’s mediocre thinking cannot get us there!
"Sifuna has no experience" is an easy statement to make. Until we examine that experience. Jomo Kenyatta, Daniel arap Moi, Mwai Kibaki and William Ruto all had experience.
Let's now see what that experience birthed.
JOMO KENYATTA
1. Political assassinations.
2. Land injustices and massive grabbing.
3. A tribal ruling class that marginalised all other communities.
4. Kikuyu oaths of 1969.
5. Detentions.
6. Rogue police squads.
7. Nepotism, favouritism and exclusivity in government.
8. Collapse of the independence dream of national unity.
9. Marginalisation of the real Mau Mau fighters as homeguards took over.
10. Obscene income gap as the poor got poorer and the rich got richer.
DANIEL ARAP MOI
1. Goldenberg.
2. The collapse or decline of nearly all industries and state institutions; sugar, pyrethrum, cotton, ADC, AFC, National Bank, Kenya Posts and Telecommunications, etc, through shameless looting.
3. Cattle tracks for roads.
4. An insanely incompetent government of homeboys, including illiterate ones.
5. Political assassinations.
6. Detention without trial.
7. Police state that urinated on constitutional freedoms, led by rogue units.
8. Runaway nepotism, favouritism and regionalism in government.
9. Rising income gap, where the poor got poorer and rich waltzed in gold.
10. Near collapse of the economy.
MWAI KIBAKI
1. Took a massive multi-tribal mandate in 2002 and tore it to pieces with unbridled tribalism which set the country on fire just five years later.
2. Anglo Leasing.
3. Recreated the Kenyatta years of a small tribal ruling class that excluded other regions.
4. Skewed development towards his community and region.
5. Artur Brothers represented the state's use of criminal networks to run crime, even issuing them with police badges.
6. Mombasa became a global drugs' port.
7. Launched the unending culture of election theft by urinating on the will of Kenyans in 2007.
8. Government use of gangs like the Mungiki became commonplace.
9. National cohesion died under him.
10. Parts of Kenya like Migingo Island and North Horr were occupied by foreign forces.
WILLIAM RUTO
1. Nationa debt is now hugging 13 trillion.
2. Taxation without empathy has killed the savings culture and rendered payslips mere pieces of paper.
3. Forests hived off to build concrete jungles, as rivers dry in response.
4. Rogue state issues passports to rogue outfits like the Sudanese Rapid Support Forces.
5. Approximately 50,000 lies in four years.
6. Failure of the healthcare system through the dysfunctional SHA.
7. State House expenditure has hit the roof.
8. Schools capitation is a permanent crisis. Kids are eating weevils named "beans" because principals don't know how to operate with nothing.
9. Police brutality, rogue police units, kidnappings and disappearances.
10. Second coming of Moi-era looting of state institutions.
If this is the experience H.E. @edwinsifuna needs to have before becoming President, then we are happy to have a President without experience who will start on a clean slate and recalibrate the country.
We thank God.
Kenyans shouldn't begrudge Sen Sifuna for his meteoric political rise. We should instead celebrate it. It's always a good thing when a young man gets a break in politics or any career for that matter and thrust himself into the national limelight. Remember, Sifuna hasn't elbowed anyone. He simply claimed a space that was empty since Hon. Kijana Wamalwa died two decades ago. For too long, Western was bereft of a political heavyweight that sat at the national table as of right. Sifuna seems to be the new kid on the block. And to be fair to the young man, his appeal goes beyond Luhya land.
@MigunaMiguna The last time I checked you voted for this government then went back to Canada.Please just stay there we don't need your advice coz you're a coward.Infact you're not a Kenyan as fee far as we are concerned
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