Empower Citizens, ‘Idiots’ And ‘Tribalists’ Cannot Drive Development

The Government-as-threat-to-economy thesis by Ruto’s most vocal voices in the Mount Kenya region is about power in 2022, and not a genuine emancipation of the citizens.

• Publications
• 13 Mar, 2024

The Government-as-threat-to-economy thesis by Ruto’s most vocal voices in the Mount Kenya region is about power in 2022, and not a genuine emancipation of the citizens. Undoubtedly, the trouble with Kenya’s development is that it is everywhere under the sway and attack from idiots and tribalists who have either silenced the citizens or reduced them to cheering crowds. This debacle reveals that the road to 2022 will be marked by wars of Charlatans, defined in politics as a public figure who acts in a disreputable, unethical, rogue-like or unscrupulous way to influence the direction of politics.

The economy remains the main plank of Deputy President William Samoei Ruto’s pivot to Mount Kenya in a scotched earth strategy to win the Presidency in 2022. “The biggest existential [sic] threat to Kenya’s declining economy and democracy…is Uhuru Kenyatta,” goes a broadside

by Ruto’s most vocal minion in the region’s politics, Kandara MP, Alice Wahome. Undoubtedly, this is so far the boldest, most radicalized, systematic and scathing attack by the Ruto camp on President Uhuru Kenyatta. Ideologically, it rests on the false premise that development is the sole responsibility of governments and Santa Clauses.