Uasin Gishu politician and businessman Bundotich Ezekiel Kiprop (Buzeki) has dismissed William Ruto’s recent economic meeting with Kikuyu elders.
This is after Deputy President Willian Ruto, economist David Ndii and a section of Mt. Kenya politician allied to Ruto went for a three-day retreat at the Maasai Mara Game reserve to discuss economic issues affecting Kenya as he plans to take a stab at the presidency in 2022.
Buzeki, a strong critic of the Deputy President likened Ruto’s economic seminar to the work of washing the feet of hens which is basically an exercise in futility as the hen’s feet will immediately get dirty.
Buzeki who vied for Uasin Gishu gubernatorial seat in 2017 but lost to Jackson Mandago further said that Ruto’s men have been implicated in corruption scandles.
“This economic seminar ni kazi ya kusafisha kuku mguu (washing the feet of hens), itarudi kukanyaga mchanga tena (the hen will get dirty almost immediately after being washed). All corrupt leaders must fall in 2022 period. Economic growth is allergic to corruption,” Buzeki said.
Ruto has been publicizing the bottom-up economic approach as his Hustler philosophy ahead of the 2022 General Election
According to Ruto, trickle-down economics has been practiced in Kenya for a long time but is yet to solve the economic pressure majority of Kenyans face hence it is time to try a bottom-up approach that will bring onboard all Kenyans.
Prior to the recent retreat, DP Ruto met former Central Bank of Kenya Governor Njuguna Ngung’u who pledged to help him develop a new economic model through the African Research Consortium.
Ruto’s retreat comes a day after the Orange Democratic Movement party leader Raila Odinga met with Mt. Kenya elders at his Karen home in Nairobi, on Friday, April 30.
In a statement, Odinga said that he and other members of the Kikuyu elders led by their patron Wachira Kiago and Peter Kenneth discussed how they would work together in the future.
