Ruto's tough balancing act to push bottom-up agenda, please hustlers

President William Ruto during a past event in Likuyani Constituency, Kakamega County. [PCS]

For its first year in office, President William Ruto's Kenya Kwanza administration faired pretty well in sustaining the twin 'hustler/bottom-up' narrative that propelled it to power.

In policy, word, and act, President Ruto - by and large - stuck to the narrative when forming his government, formulating its policies, selling them to Parliament and the public, and implementing them in the last 12 months of rule.