Ruto's missteps are making Kenya a better place

President William Ruto and Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua at a past function. [File, Standard]

First, it was a tragedy, then a farce. We don't need a literature reading to see that President William Ruto and his Kenya Kwanza administration simply refuse to read the room. This is a terribly unpopular government, and it doesn't need rich people to fund poor people to say this. If we were to stretch this thinking a little, it is not beyond reason that, in an election called today, Raila Odinga would probably win it with an absolute landslide if he wants the actual job.

But let's go back to the tragical farce that is ongoing impeachment proceedings against Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua, the "truthful mehn" who told us how they inherited "dilapidated public coffers" only to be told shortly thereafter about his freshly-minted multi-billion wealth. I have no dog in this apparent Ruto-Gachagua fight between what looks like two birds of a feather, but the new wealth accusations have the amateurish taint of Inspecter Clouseau's pink panther.