How Prezzo Ruto is crafting the State of Kenya in own image

President William Ruto addresses residents after the launch of the Sogoo-Melelo-Ololung’a Road on the second day of his tour of Narok County, May 7, 2025.  [Kipsang Joseph, Standard]

In a week punctuated by so much rabsha, from goons’ takeover of city streets, to police guns blasting off a hawker’s head, Prezzo Bill Ruto appeared surprisingly calm when he arrived in Naivasha to make a pitch for his pet project, the Affordable Housing Programme.

This time, he was not accompanied by a certain mama mboga who Kenyans on Twitter smoked out as a masquerader, because she appeared in his many photo-ops, receiving keys to houses in different localities.