The recent constituted cabinet is widely silent, but the CSs who joined the government from the ODM Party are talking.
This is because they are to redeem the face of Ruto’s government.
The country is asking accountability questions.
The CS Treasury is planning to fish out 49 clauses from the rejected Finance Act that he believes were good for the nation.
This goes against the agreement that followed the rejection of the document since every clause in the Finance Act 2023-2024 was rejected.
Eco levy was one such very controversial item in the Finance Act 2024, and for the CS to suggest that it will be reintroduced is calling for hell to break.
Eco levy affects the life of the common mwananchi far and wide.
For the government to think that they have neutralised the minor revolution by the Gen Z is giving the state a wrong comfort.
If the government goes about without working at the deep sitted issues that need addressed, the rage will reoccur.
When time for reckoning came, Ruto ran to cover under Raila.
Ruto is vulnerable since he has exposed his underbelly that if Raila is not there, government collapses!
Hon Raila Odinga offered political optics to Kenya Kwanza administration, which in its two years, was faced by possible collapse.
However, political optics without tangible sensitivity to the plight of the country is something that can not produce favourable results.
A real element of change must be visible!

The protests in Kenya have left the streets, and people have resulted in digital protests where everything is being discussed online.
The June/July protests however will go down in Kenya’s history as the most successful protests that were bent on the patriotism of leaderless and tribless formation seeking good governance and the question on the country’s economy that is marred by mega looting of State resources, austerity and opulence.
However, Hon Raila Odinga who is on exit from Kenya’s politics to take up a continental role at the African Union has weakened his political clasp in the country after Kenyans associated his joining of Ruto’s government as an act of selfishness and betrayal.
The economic problem in the country is bedivilled on the sovereign debt.
However, it is unclear what exactly the debt owed to this nation is.
Late President Mwai Kibaki’s government had a debt deficit of 18%.
His economy for the country worked well because his government had 82% for recurrent expenditure and development matters in the country.
Former President Uhuru Kenyatta’s government had a debt deficit of 65%.
This meant his administration had 35% to engage with in recurrent expenditure and development programmes.
The current administration of President Ruto is having a debt deficit of 80%, with only 20% available for recurrent expenditure and development, which is quite unsustainable.
It doesn’t matter who occupies the Treasury docket.
With such figures as 20% is quite impossible to turn around the economy of this nation.
It therefore means, Hon John Mbadi, who is an ODM appointee to the Ruto government and the Head at Treasury, will find himself at a fix if the question of sovereign debt is not scrutinised to the latter.
This country has had a total of seven Eurobonds, and it is widely believed that a good chunk of the money ended up in influential people’s pockets!
This has raised our debt as much and from what we are made to pay for, we did not have the value of the said money as a country.
It is therefore prudent to work out the genuine debt the country is owed and separate it from odious debt failure, CS Treasury Hon John Mbadi will not be able to solve the problem of this country, which is the economy!

President Ruto, the Head of Kenya Kwanza administration, has failed, and the government may never deliver, but Ruto, the politician, is up on the car roof cruise crossing promising goodies even with a broke Treasury.
We will need to re-engineer our politics to change the parameters on how we elect our leaders.
Kibaso Morara, a lawyer by profession, has gone out of his way to provide civic education to Kenyans.
He is using his own resources to visit the country and expose the Ruto projects that were launched and never took off, yet from the
Auditor-General, the money for the projects has been dished out!
Such actions are necessary. They surpass daydreams.
When politicians ganged up against the people, Kalonzo and Wamalwa gained recognition from the Gen Z.
They should as well take advantage of that and stop using conferences to address how they are now the opposition but go to the people and start catapulting their State House ordeal by castigating the ills in Ruto administration!
Jimmy Wanjigi is also a potential president contender.
He recently gained milliege for being victimised for his support to Gen Z.
He should now leave the studios and go to the mountain to proclaim himself as the viable King Pin and suppress the Gachagua star from rising.
That is the basket with the most votes in the country, and by so doing, it will enable his looks and approach to be high in the skies.
Kenya politics is local, and people look up for leaders from up not down.
Jimmy Wanjigi should now be ascending up for the country and the world at large to spot him!

For those who think Ruto will lose in the next general election, let us all live up to the fact that the country needs a vigorous mindset change advocacy to shift the people mindset from politics of tribalism and patronage to politics of Idealism from the core and this is how we can beat Ruto to win the next general elections.
Gen Z has the vote and will look for the most suitable candidate to rally in masses behind that person.
This has been the dream of the New Kenya Movement, but a dream alone cannot remove a bad president from power!

By Charles Kabibiri

Political activist and analyst Kenya