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Ruto's roadmap from Vision 2030 to First World needs clear directions

President William Ruto during the State of the Nation Address 2025 at Parliament Buildings,Nairobi .November 20th,2025. [PCS/Standard]

After witnessing weeks of populist pronouncements from car sunroofs exhorting Kenyans to stop being “average” for us to move “from third world to first”, we finally got to hear more about this latest brainwave by President William Ruto as he delivered his third State of the Nation Address to Parliament last Thursday.  

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