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Like Uhuru, Ruto now knows presidency is not a bed of roses

President William Ruto was crowned as a Luo elder at the Thimlich Ohinga historic site in Migori County on December 17, 2025. [PCS]

On August 22, 2021, I wrote that Uhuru Kenyatta would be declared Kenya’s best president come 2024. My argument then was that history would judge him more kindly than his critics did in the heat of politics.

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