Former Prime Minister Raila Odinga lost the presidency to William Ruto in the hotly contested 2022 presidential election.
According to the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC), Raila polled 6.9 million votes just 200,000 votes away from William Ruto’s 7.1 million.
However, the Azimio la Umoja One Kenya Coalition Party chief maintains that he was the one who won the polls and that the IEBC rigged him out.
But Transport Cabinet Secretary (CS) Kipchumba Murkomen on Sunday, April 9, said that the opposition leader must be grateful for not being the Head of State.
The former Elgeyo Marakwet Senator revealed that President William Ruto was facing hurdles in running the Kenya Kwanza government.
The CS who was speaking during a congregation of African Inland Church (AIC) bishops from Elgeyo Marakwet said that Rtd. President Uhuru Kenyatta left the country in an economic hole and Raila would not rescue the country.
“Raila should be grateful to God that he is not the President as he would not have known how to clean the mess created by the previous administration. Ruto knows how to hustle and get the country out of this economic hole,” he said.
Murkomen comments come at a time when the Kenya Kwanza government has failed to meet some of its financial obligations.
For instance, the new administration has not paid its civil servants their salaries, making life unbearable not only to hustlers but to state officials as well.
He however defended President Ruto’s regime against reports of its inability to pay public servants, including Members of Parliament on time.
“I can see there is an ongoing debate that the country is broke. It is not that there is no money, all the money is being eroded by debts,
“The debt that was taken, and some were taken haphazardly, for some debts, the money has never been accounted for,” Murkomen explained.
