Tuesday, May 26, 2026
- Kericho Senator and Senate Majority Leader, Aaron Cheruiyot, has launched a
scathing counterattack against former President Uhuru Kenyatta, accusing him of
hypocrisy and selective memory in his criticism of the Kenya Kwanza
administration.
Speaking during a public forum, Cheruiyot challenged the
former Head of State to account for Kenya’s economic decline under his tenure
before faulting President William Ruto’s leadership.
He accused Uhuru of portraying his era as a time of
prosperity while ignoring the hardships Kenyans endured during the Jubilee Government.
“I saw Uhuru Kenyatta speaking, and I’m looking at you,
Uhuru.”
“Is there anything good you have ever seen William Ruto do
in this Kenya?”
“Because every time you take the microphone, you speak as if
when you were President, we lived in heaven.”
“Maybe you don’t know that we suffered equally when you were
President.”
“Let me tell you, things were terrible even before you
became President,” Cheruiyot declared.
The Senator defended Ruto’s administration, citing reduced
fertiliser prices, improved healthcare access under the Social Health Authority
(SHA), and a stabilised shilling against the US dollar.
He contrasted this with what he described as rampant
borrowing and ballooning debt under Uhuru’s Government, even referencing past
allegations by former Auditor General Edward Ouko that billions were siphoned
into offshore accounts.
"In fact, I am tempted to believe what the former Auditor
General Ouko once alleged in 2015, that that money never made its way to Kenya
but was banked into private accounts in Panama, where you and those like you
have private accounts.”
“Then you dare come back to us today and say Kenyans are
facing hardship?” He stated.
He argued that Kenya’s present economic challenges were
rooted in decisions made during the Jubilee era.
His remarks came hours after Uhuru accused the Kenya Kwanza
administration of ignoring the plight of ordinary citizens while engaging in
blame games.
The Kenyan DAILY POST
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