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Ruto says Raila lacks ideas, only focused on changing the constitution

by Enock Ndayala

Kenya’s Deputy President William Ruto has said that his main competitor in the 2022 presidential race and ODM leader Raila Odinga has run out of ideas and is only focused on changing the Constitution.

Addressing hundreds of Sultan Hamud residents in Kilome, Makueni County on Tuesday, September 21, the deputy president said the former Prime Minister has nothing new to offer Kenyans other than advancing his selfish interests.

“Every time, they (Raila Odinga) have been telling us to change the Constitution to create a prime minister’s post and to share power,” Ruto said in an apparent attack against Odinga.

Ruto says Raila lacks ideas, only focused on changing the constitution
Deputy President William Ruto has said that his main competitor in the 2022 presidential race and ODM leader Raila Odinga has run out of ideas and is only focused on changing the Constitution. Photo: William Ruto/Facebook.

While defending his bottom-up economic model, the former Agriculture Minister instead challenged Raila Odinga to change the economy first before he can embrace Constitutional changes.

 “We are telling them this time that before talking about changing the Constitution, let us change our economy,” Ruto said.

The deputy president told Raila what the Jubilee government has delivered is a testimony to his (Ruto’s) ability to deliver on his much0hyped bottom-up economic model.

“I know what I am saying. If we connected electricity to almost eight million Kenyans and built the Standard Gauge Railway, why would someone ask us how we will actualise the bottom-up economic model?” DP Ruto posed.

Two weeks ago, the second in command told off Raila Odinga for constantly criticising his bottom-up economic model and challenged him to tell Kenyans about his economic plan for the youths.

“You can as well tell us the complexity of the Orange if you wish instead of being obsessed with the simplicity of the wheelbarrow,” Ruto said.

This was after the opposition chief Raila Odinga took a veiled jibe at William Ruto’s hustler narrative terming it as retrogressive as it promised youth jobs of yesteryears in a fast-changing world.

“People who were promised digital jobs, who were promised knowledge-based economy, who were promised double-digit economic growth, are now being offered wheelbarrows and being told Kazi ni Kazi,” Odinga said.

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