Denis Young
Elder Lister
1. First this list consists of duplicate "promises".
2. Half of the actual list doesn't even feature in the manifesto. Probably some poorly curated and misinterpreted soundbites from social media.
3. These are what I like to call the immeasurables. How did the person who decided that the "promises" have not been kept know they have not been kept?
- Increase LPO financing to PWDs
- Enter mutual legal assistance treaties with partner states
- Allocate market stalls to PWDs
4. These ones can be verified.
- Provide affordable housing mortgages to civil servants and police (Just this week Ruto opened police housing which was completed under the affordable housing program. People paying for affordable housing are doing so at lower interest costs than the market rate.)
- Provide free internet and calls (this was purely about free internet and access to VOIP calls. That was being provided with internet access points in public spaces. I don't know how far that is a long and I don't care. It is not the route I would have taken. I would have subsidized the cost of laying fiber.)
- Establish a benevolent fund for families of fallen and terminally ill officers (I don't know about this.)
5. This one I always knew was a long stretch and I said as much.
- Establish a quasi-judicial public inquiry (If there is anything you should have learnt by now, the biggest hindrance to corruption are Kenyans themselves. If today Ruto went after Raila and Uhuru despite being corrupt himself, Kenyans will be on the streets rioting and burning down businesses like your favorite Gen Z's. Imagine that level of crisis in the current economic crisis? Would we have managed to avoid a default in such tumoil? I don't think so, and I said as much. Ruto was well advised not to go this route.
6. Finally, the plain absurd.
- Enforce judgments and court orders - (This government has done nothing but obey court orders and appealed where necessary or followed and implemented the judgment in order to make their activities constitutional.)
- End unauthorized evictions and property demolitions (This is just pure nonsense. People who refuse to obey eviction notices cannot be said to have been evicted. You cannot also build along the banks of a river, have your homes get washed away by the swollen rivers, and then blame serikali for your misfortune. Then when you are told to leave you say your are being evicted.)
