Wamuchomba: Ruto is populist, do not believe what he says
Githunguri Member of Parliament Gathoni Wa Muchomba has abandoned President William Ruto's political manifesto to Kenyans. The MP has also criticised that all he does is promising popular projects and unable to implement.
Speaking in an interview at Citizen Digital, Wamuchomba labelled Ruto's promises to provide chapatis to school children in Nairobi is unrealistic and populist.
“We have a president who is a populist, and unfortunately, this does not augur well. All he is doing is promising popular projects that he cannot deliver. Promising the people of Nairobi chapati is simplistic. If he cannot even feed his military for lunch, what capacity does he have to feed the children of Nairobi?” she said.
She also noted that Ruto has engaged himself in divisive politics, president has shifted from a unifying national agenda.
“He has become a regionalist politician. He realized that Kenyans are one and that tribalism is no longer a viable political strategy, so he replaced it with the hustlers versus dynasties narrative. Now that it is not working, he is resorting to even more simplistic tactics and strategy based on classism,” she noted.
She continuously branded Ruto's leadership approach as "deceptive".
“The president makes me interpret that he was a con when he does not deliver on his promises. He was not the man I believed in. The whole campaign was a con game. I want to tell Kenyans never to believe what William Ruto says because he is an orator who does not assimilate what he preaches,” she said.
The Githunguri MP also cited she has also changed the political landscape to amplify critical issues affecting Kenyans.
“Nothing has changed in me. The Gathoni who fought for Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), the one who was summoned to State House three times during President Kibaki’s regime, is still the same today. Do you know former President Moi gave an executive order to shut down the station I was working for? He even demanded that I speak in Kiswahili for a whole month on a Kikuyu-language station,” she said.
However, recently, Wamuchomba was removed as the Chairperson of the Constitution Implementation Oversight Committee in Parliament.
“The push was politically engineered. I have been a very vocal MP, and I refused to conform to certain expectations, including supporting the controversial Finance Bill. As the chair of the committee overseeing the implementation of the constitution, I could not endorse an unconstitutional bill,” she said.
Gathoni Wamuchomba was recently named as best-performing MP by Infortrack Kenya.
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