Ruto Walking The Talk In Ensuring The National Cake Is Shared Equally
The Mt Kenya Times 
President William Ruto
By: Joseph Mutua Ndonga
Worth Noting:
- In Coast, the President suspended his development tour. This gave him an opportunity to receive the Royal Couple during which Britain’s King Charles inspected a guard of honor mounted by Kenya Navy.
- He also witnessed first-hand experience of the Kenyan Navy soldiers in thwarting and nipping in the bud any threat posed by enemies. The King, who is the Captain-General of British Royal Marine, was upbeat and thrilled by the drill they carried out.
- Besides Dr Ruto, Deputy President (DP) Rigathi Gachagua and Prime Cabinet Secretary Musalia Mudavadi were at hand to receive the King.
- The DP had a good conversation with him. This once again left his critics embarrassed and ashamed. This is because they had created the impression that the DP had been sidelined from this visit.
President William Ruto has in the recent past been visiting various parts of the country to launch new development projects and commission those that had been completed by his administration.
Coast region is the latest to benefit from Dr Ruto’s bagful of development goodies.
The following are some of the projects he had unveiled: The construction and commissioning of various roads including the Dongo Kundu; a 2 billion fishing port and setting aside Sh1 billion to buy lands owned by absentee landlords.
It is worth nothing the problem of land remains as one of the key challenges in this region.
Majority of the residents are living as squatters more than 50 years since Kenya attained its independence.
This is a matter that President Ruto is determined to address once for all and in so doing fulfill one of the key pre-election pledges.
He has also kicked off the excercise of issuing title deeds to the down trodden, the hustlers.
The President is privy to the fact this problem is not only confined to Coast. He is therefore looking forward to address the emotive issue of lands in other regions.
To achieve this, he has been challenging the Ministry of Lands and Settlement to pull up their socks
Dr Ruto’s visit to Coast came at a time when King Charles 111 and his wife, Queen Camilla were visiting the country.
He had earlier accorded their Majesties a warm reception and organized a state banquet for them at State House Nairobi.
He had also taken the King to Uhuru Gardens where he laid a wreath in memory of the freedom fighters.
In Coast, the President suspended his development tour. This gave him an opportunity to receive the Royal Couple during which Britain’s King Charles inspected a guard of honor mounted by Kenya Navy.
He also witnessed first-hand experience of the Kenyan Navy soldiers in thwarting and nipping in the bud any threat posed by enemies. The King, who is the Captain-General of British Royal Marine, was upbeat and thrilled by the drill they carried out.
Besides Dr Ruto, Deputy President (DP) Rigathi Gachagua and Prime Cabinet Secretary Musalia Mudavadi were at hand to receive the King.
The DP had a good conversation with him. This once again left his critics embarrassed and ashamed. This is because they had created the impression that the DP had been sidelined from this visit.
The King had arrived at a time when Gachagua was in Brussels Belgium where he was representing President William Ruto at Global Gateway Forum organized by European Union (EU).
The critics would use this as a ground of cooking their cheap and narrow-minded stories.
Back to ongoing development tours, the President has been reiterating that he was committed to ensure the equal sharing of the national cake.
I know some of you did not elect me. I have no problem with that because what you did resonated with the tenets of democracy and constitutionalism.
Having won the elections, I understand that my job is that of serving all Kenyans without any discrimination, he stated this when he toured the Siaya County.
For starters, Siaya is the bedrock of his arch-rival Raila Odinga, who also happens to be fierce critic of Gachagua.
The President further stated. I have heard some people in government circles likening my administration to a shareholding company. I don’t agree with them. Every Kenyan pays taxes and hence entitled to get a share of the development goodies.
Gachagua’s critics would not wait for the dust to settle. They interpreted Dr Ruto’s comments to mean that he was targeting the DP.
In my view, they were wrong. Ruto and Gachagua are birds of the same feather. Their friendship which has lasted for more than 26 years remains cordial and intact.
Both are well educated students of politics. One of the key aspects of politics is to read public mood.
In Siaya, President William Ruto had read the public mood. This is after local leaders led by the area governor James Orengo, who had spoken before him, resorted to inciting and poisoning the minds of the locals.
The locals would not even allow the area MP to address them. This is because of being associated with politics of Ruto’s UDA.
So, the option left for Dr Ruto was to speak the language that they wanted to hear.
As a political analyst, I want to say this without fear of contradictions.
Even it is Gachagua, who was there, he would do the same thing.
I’m not holding brief for DP but I want to say this. His ‘shareholding remark’ had been interpreted out of the context. At no time did he contradicted the president’s position of equal sharing of national cake.
Remember he spoke when Raila Odinga was holding demonstrations that turned out to be bloody, destructive and disruptive.
Apart from dozens of innocent people losing their lives, businesses were burnt, looted and destroyed.
It is worth noting the Kenyan heads of state who served the previous governments had set a precedent.
Each gave plum state jobs to those who hailed from the communities that had voted for them.
Perhaps this is what Gachagua was alluding to but in his mind one thing was clear.
He knew he was the Deputy President of Kenya. As the second-in-command, he was looking forward to help the president address this recurring problem.
This by first ensuring no region is discriminated on matters of development.
Turning to skewed and biased employment, this problems cannot be addressed in one day.
This is because the previous administrations had already filled top positions with their political cronies and friends.
The same scenerio had played during the tenure of President Mwai Kibaki. During his second term, Raila Odinga, who served as a Prime Minister, did not help to address the problem of tribalism and nepotism.
Majority of those who served in all the dockets he headed hailed from his community.
Joseph Mutua Ndonga is a writer and political analyst based in Nairobi
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