Editor's Review

"They are waiting for me to go and buy them with money. How can you buy someone who is tribal? How will it help you?" Ruto posed.


President William Ruto has hit out at the opposition, claiming that they are waiting for him to bribe them to join the broad-based government. 

Speaking in Homa Bay County on Friday, March 30, the Head of State maintained that he would not be giving money to any of them.

He expressed that the opposition leaders were focused on tribal politics, adding that they would not add value to the broad-based arrangement.

"They are waiting for me to go and buy them with money. How can you buy someone who is tribal? How will it help you? What will be their price?" Ruto posed. 

"They are announcing that they want to be bought. They have no shame. Are you goats at a market to be bought? You will wait."

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File image of opposition leaders addressing a crowd in Machakos County.

On the other hand, he drummed up support for the broad-based arrangement, expressing that they were only interested in uniting Kenyans and developing the country.

"We have decided because we are not interested in tribal politics. We have decided to work together so that no part of the country is left behind," he stated.

Ruto had been accompanied by former Prime Minister Raila Odinga to Homa Bay to launch various projects.

On his part, Raila noted that they were currently focused on service delivery, further calling on the ODM leaders who were recently appointed to government to work for Kenyans.

He told the residents that the time would come when he would chart the political way forward for his people ahead of 2027.

Notably, the visit comes days after a poll by TIFA research showed that the broad-based government was unpopular among Kenyans. 54 per cent of Kenyans surveyed in the poll expressed that they do not support the current framework.

On the other hand, the majority of Kenyans predicted that Raila would leave the broad-based government and unite with the opposition leaders in 2027.

"Almost a majority of all Kenyans expect him to rejoin the opposition, whether he contests himself (28%) or supports another candidate against Ruto (18% - making a total of 46%)," read the report in part.

"Indeed, even more than one-third of Broad Based Government (BBG) supporters expect that he will have turned his back on the current BBG arrangement by rejoining the opposition, whether he contests or not (13% + 25% = 38%). For their part, only slightly more than half of those opposed to the BBG believe he will have rejoined the Opposition by 2027, whether or not he actually contests the presidency yet again (22% + 31% = 53%)."