Activist and civic educator Morara Kebaso has weighed in on a developmental aspect that could stage the downfall of President William Ruto and his Kenya Kwanza regime.
Taking to his X account on Tuesday, March 11, 2025, Kebaso stated that the president remains beatable in the 2027 elections as he signalled the surest way of getting the head of state out of government.
The activist, renowned for detailing several failed projects by the government across the country, maintains that capitalizing on the subject of unmet promises and outright lies will lead to the administration being exposed.
The Kenya Kwanza regime has suffered a problem of trust deficit since its rise to power in 2022 and Kebaso holds that bringing president’s unfilled promises of development to the attention of the Kenyans citizenry could lead to a disillusionment.
“Ruto’s lies are based on project promises. If we can show Kenyans that the projects do not exist and the promises were nothing but shameless lies; we will have sent him home. And no one should lie to you that he is undefeatable. He is very defeatable that is why he has panicked,” Kebaso said in a statement.
Kebaso’s comments after the head of state made yet another promise that left Kenyans talking during his ongoing tour of Nairobi County.
During the visit to Mathare estate on Tuesday, March 11, 2025., President William Ruto pledged to boost Governor Johnson Sakaja’s Dishi na County programme by purchasing a machine that can make one million chapatis daily.
The president made the promise at St Teresa Primary School in Mathare, following a request from Sakaja who sought the president’s intervention on the challenge to prepare chapatis in the school.
He thus implored the head of state to provide a chapati-making machine.
“Watoto wangu mnapatanga ndizi kila siku? (My children, do you get bananas every day),” Sakaja asked to which the students enthusiastically replied, saying, “Yes.”
“Niongeze nini? (What should I add?)” Sakaja continued, to which the pupils replied saying; “Chapati.”
Chapati-making machine
“Mnajua hio chapati… watoto 300,000 wanalishwa Nairobi, ntaomba rais anisaidie na machine ya kutengeza chapo,” Sakaja added.
Ruto immediately vowed to honour Sakaja’s request, noting that he will ensure that the program receives a chapati-making machine, which he says will produce 1 million chapatis daily, once he is aware of where to purchase them.
“Governor ameniuliza ya kwamba tuongeze chapati katika dishi ya Nairobi na ninunue machine ya kutengeza chapo, na nimekubali kua nitamnunulia machine ya kutengeza chapo, sasa gavana tafuta mahali pa kununua machine ya kutengeza chapo milioni moja, (The governor has asked that we add chapati in the Dishi ya Nairobi initiative, I have agreed to purchase the machine, it is now the work of the governor to locate a shop we can purchase them from, do that we can be able to make one million chapatis),” Ruto said amid cheers from the pupils.
