Disastrous Ruto presidency should make us better voters

The crisis engulfing Kenya today, economic despair, repression and betrayal,did not come out of the blue. It is a direct result of a collective national mistake: Knowingly elevating a man riddled with red flags to the presidency. The pain and regret Kenyans now endure should provoke not just outrage but deep soul-searching. Because William Ruto didn't simply rise to power; he was enabled by votes, silence, tribal loyalties, and transactional complicity. The tragedy is not just that he is president. The tragedy is that we, fully aware of who he was, handed him the keys.