Ruto will ultimately bring down cost of living; let's give him time

President William Ruto during a round table interview with the media at State House Nairobi on December 17, 2023. PCS]

When President Theodore Roosevelt talked about the man in the arena, he possibly had President William Ruto in mind. He observed in part that "It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming....

As 2023 comes to a close, we have seen a commander-in-chief who has creatively fought for the vitality of the Kenyan economy and the people of Kenya. In the middle of the 2022 elections, one of the media houses hosted leading economists in the country and sought their opinion on how long it would take for us to turn the corner out of the economic mess the country was mired in.