President William Ruto‘s chairperson of the Council of Economic Advisors David Ndii now says he regrets campaigning for Kenya Kwanza in the 2022 presidential election.
In a series of posts and replies on his official X account, Ndii said he wished former Prime Minister Raila Odinga would have been Kenya’s fifth president so that he could inherit the mess created by his ‘dynasty brother’ Uhuru Kenyatta.
“You don’t know how often I wish we lost the election to see the dynasty brothers wading into their problems,” David Ndii said on Sunday, October 29.
He accused Retired President Uhuru Kenyatta and his handshake partner Raila Odinga of doing nothing to address the debt nightmare since he chose to ‘burn Forex Reserves’.
“Uhuru burned our forex reserves propping up both the shilling and interest rates artificially, and now we become the falls guy for biting the bullet,” said.
Ndii reiterated Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua’s comments that the woes the country is facing were created by the former regime and that the Kenya Kwanza government was being wrongfully victimized.
He further projected a tough economic time ahead for the country, asking Kenyans to brace for the worst as debts mature.
He said the situation has been made worse with the shilling which is on a free-fall against the US dollar.
”If US rates don’t ease for markets to open for frontier economies… It’s a wing and a prayer. Over to you churchgoers,” he added.
Ndii was in 2020 ranked the 22nd most influential economist in the world.
The vocal economic expert, who previously worked closely with the defunct NASA coalition and ODM party leader Raila Odinga, is believed to be the man behind President William Ruto’s famous bottom-up economic model that propelled Kenya Kwanza to power.
