Editor's Review

Kindiki asked Uhuru and other critics to base their criticism of Ruto's regime on truth and facts.

Deputy President Kithure Kindiki has joined other allies of President William Ruto to get back at former president Uhuru Kenyatta who criticised the current regime during a Jubilee Party National Delegations Conference (NDC).

While addressing the delegates on Friday, September 26, Uhuru took on Ruto for supposedly reversing the gains achieved at the time of his (Uhuru's) exit from power.

The former president cited Ruto's new policies that he said were "untried and untested".

He drew an instance from the changes made to the Linda Mama programme, which offered free maternal healthcare to mothers from low income households.

"Today, many of the gains we had in the past have been eroded, Linda Mama and others have been replaced by new, untried and untested schemes. And while we wait for these experiments to work, Kenyans suffer and our progress is retarded," he said.

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But speaking in Daadab in Garissa County on Saturday, September 27, Kindiki accused Uhuru of being mistaken and doing away with facts while advancing his offensive against Ruto.

The DP stated that Linda Mama was still operational, and that what the Ruto regime had done was to improve it, and not scrap it as the former president suggested.

Deputy President Ktihure Kindiki in Daadab, Garissa County.

He noted that the programme had been improved to accomodate more beneficiaries, hence flagging Uhuru's concerns as falsehoods.

"The government of President William Ruto has done well. Critics are free to talk, but they should do so omn truth and facts. They should not lie. Linda Mama programme has been expanded through Social Health Authority (SHA) to serve more beneficiaries. It is not just taking care of women; it is serving men, children and youth, we call it Linda Jamii. If we focus on taking care of women alone and leaving men and youth out is not right," Kindiki said.

At the same time, Kindiki enumerated some of what he said were achievements of Ruto in an apparent bid to counter Uhuru's assertion that the current regime in power is struggling with unviable programmes and policies.

He referenced the subsidy Ruto sanctioned for fertilisers, citing it among the contributors of bumper harvests in the country.

Kindiki also listed Ruto's intervention in stabilising the Kenyan shilling against the United States dollar, revitalised the health sector, building markets and roads, not forgetting the apparent reforms in the education sector.