When he said Kenyans were judging him rather harshly during a televised interview last Monday, President William Ruto must have had the ‘Ruto must go’ chants at the back of his mind.
Dr Ruto was the portrait of an optimist who believed he would achieve the lofty promises he made to Kenyans as he campaigned to be president. In the interim, things were mostly working fine.
The Head of State was an image of desperation, too. Despite what he thought was making the best of the cards handed to him, the substantial debt burden inherited from former President Uhuru Kenyatta, a struggling economy, and a populace weighed down by a high cost of living, Ruto, seemingly, could not do right by significant sections of the youth.
When he said Kenyans were judging him rather harshly during a televised interview last Monday, President William Ruto must have had the ‘Ruto must go’ chants at the back of his mind.
By Brian Otieno