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Saturday, June 24, 2023 –President William Ruto has emerged in an undated video clip in which he is castigating former President Mwai Kibaki for planning to empower mama mboga and bodaboda riders.
This is after the late President, in 2007, announced plan to create over 400,000 jobs for the struggling Kenyans below the poverty line.
But in the video which has been widely shared on Twitter since yesterday, Dr. Ruto, then a mere MP, could be heard bashing Kibaki’s government for talking about the poor.
Ruto, from the clip, indicated that selling vegetables and riding bodaboda was not what any government can focus on as a way of job creation.
Mr. Ruto was speaking in one of their Orange Democratic Movement ODM Party campaigns in 2007 held in Igembe Meru. He was in the same campaign team with Raila Odinga then flagbearer.
“Raila Odinga should be President and serve the people. He is a Kenyan citizen and patriot. Kibaki promised to be in power for only five years. He should be here campaigning for Raila,” Ruto, a member of defunct Pentagon, rallied the crowd in Meru.
Pentagon outfit had names such as Najib Balala, William Ruto, Raila Odinga, Kalonzo Musyoka, Charity Ngilu among other
“Alitumbia ati kuna wamama wanauza mboga sokoni na vijana wa boda boda barabarani. Ati hiyo ni kazi imepatikana (He told us that there are women selling vegetables in the market and young men on motorcycles. He claimed those are jobs he would create),” Ruto trolled the President.
Instead, Ruto challenged President Kibaki who was running for his second term in office, to create better business opportunities for the women rather than propagating a low-class narrative around selling vegetables and riding bodaboda.
“We tell you (Mr. Kabaki) that you can as well do the jobs of women in the market and the youth on boda bodas,” Ruto added.
But leading to the August 9 election, despite criticizing Kibaki on this, Ruto turned around to laud his leadership style and even promised to emulate him.
Ruto today says that Kibaki laid a firm foundation in many sectors including education, infrastructural development, and the overall economy.
Commenting on the past clip of Ruto faulting Kibaki, Lawyer Ekuru Aukot noted that the late president Emilio Mwai Kibaki remains the best in the 60 years of country’s independence.
