Political analyst Mutahi Ngunyi pleaded with President William Ruto to listen to various concerns raised by Kenyans.
In two separate statements dated November 9, Mutahi Ngunyi stated that the Head of State failed to address pertinent issues affecting the citizens in his State of the Nation address held in parliament.
In his advice to Ruto, Ngunyi asked him to listen to dissenting voices which will help his government get back on track.
“Dear Ruto. Take time to LISTEN. Listen to Bishop Ole Sapit. Listen to your UDA MPs who said the ground was HOSTILE. And listen to Kenyans who said that the State of the Nation address was UNDERWHELMING. It is NOT always RIGHT to be RIGHT. Ask God!,” Ngunyi wrote on social media platform X.
At the same time, the political analyst asked the President to listen to South African leader Julius Malema who called him out on Thursday, November 9.
“State House has a RESIDENT disease called Intellectual INCEST. If the King is NAKED, no one will tell him. In the Bible, God used a DONKEY to speak to the Prophet. Now God has sent a non-descript unionist called Julius Malema to tell us that the King is NAKED,” he added.
Malema, the leader of South Africa’s opposition Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) party, criticized President Ruto for failing to fulfill the promises he made to Kenyans in the run-up to the 2022 General Election.
Malema, who was speaking to launch the Pan African Institute at Lukenya University, intimated that President Ruto’s election promises vis-à-vis his actions as the current Head of State are as distinct as day and night.
“I don’t know if President William Ruto means it because he said so many things, and I can’t locate him these days, because the things he said during election and the things he’s doing now are two different things,” he said in his address.
“Because I heard him saying we need to do away with the dollar and build our own currency, but his actions are not speaking to anything of doing away with the dollar,” Malema added.
Ruto in his State of the Nation failed to delve deeper into the cost of fuel, prices of basic commodities, and even new charges introduced the his government.
A section of Kenyans expressed concerns arguing that the Head of State was out of touch with current issues affecting them.
