Time for Ruto to step in, steady the Jubilee ship

Ken Opalo

Over the last four years, Kenyans of good faith – including yours truly – have expressed a desire to see President Uhuru Kenyatta succeed. Kenyatta’s success would have been Kenya’s success. Yet at almost every turn, Kenyatta has provided Kenyans with little to celebrate. Instead of steady leadership, he has operated as little more than a caretaker with zero interest in working to improve Kenyan lives. Corruption has gone unchecked, even encouraged. And the government has failed to meet even the most basic of its functions.

Take the example of the ongoing famine in northern and northeastern parts of our country. How is it that in 2017 we are still unable to feed our people? And why should our president, a man who is allegedly a nationalist who prides himself in being a defender of our sovereignty, gleefully take pictures while receiving food aid from a desert country? Granted, the oil-rich United Arab Emirates may have bought the food from elsewhere, but the optics were horrendous. And it says a lot that neither the president, nor his handlers, thought twice about the shame this photo-op brought to the country.