The United Democratic Alliance (UDA) party will begin a three-month audit of the performance of President Ruto's top ranking officials, and release findings to the public.
Party Secretary General Cleophas Malala said the party will interact with millions of its supporters countrywide and using an evaluation matrix, will look into the performance of Cabinet and principal secretaries, before advising the president on measures to take to remedy service delivery.
Mr Malala said the audit, which begins next month and to be done twice every year, was meant to ensure that those given the mandate to serve the public stayed true to the spirit of the President's ambition to change the lives of Kenyans.
The party's work, Mr Malala said, was to do the President's political bidding while letting him concentrate on service delivery and implementation of The Plan and Bottom-Up Transformation Agenda.
"As a party, we will be busy interacting with the people on the ground to get their feedback on performance of top officials, especially Cabinet and principal secretaries whom we will rate for all to see," Malala told The Sunday Standard.
The UDA secretary general said the party would not allow anyone to derail the President from delivering on his pledge to change the lives of Kenyans.
"We will handle the political affairs, including warding off Opposition sideshows, and we expect that the President's appointees will not let him down," said Mr Malala.
Firing a warning shot on the corrupt, the party said it would not defend anyone involved in the vice and will instead call out those mentioned adversely to safeguard integrity of government.
"If you are a CS, PS, governor or any senior official, the moment you are mentioned in graft, you are on your own. In fact, we will be the ones calling you out because we want a clean and efficient government," said Mr Malala.
He said the party was working on audit parameters and the survey tool, which will be fair and accountable, will be made public.
To align all the efforts to the implementation of the President's The Plan, the party will be meeting UDA governors to ensure that their development agendas are in sync with the coalition's manifesto.
"We want our governors to ensure that what is implemented mirrors the President's overall plan so that there is synergy and seamless service delivery to the people," he said.
UDA has 22 out of 47 governors, and Meru Governor Kawira Mwangaza is also allied with the ruling coalition.
"So as to keep the President committed to the sole cause of changing hustlers' lives, we will counter the opposition distractions by becoming his (Ruto's) political front soldiers," said Mr Malala.
The party is in preparation for grassroots elections, to be held in August through to December when a National Delegates Congress (NDC) will pick national officials.
"In July, we are opening 24 branch offices in counties, and increase them to 47 by October. These offices will be crucial in organising elections to be conducted in clusters of five counties," said Mr Malala.
The use of clusters was ease the election process to ensure that only popular officials and picked.
The party's mass recruitment took it to opposition strongholds of Nyanza, Western and Coast, hoping to take advantage of divisions rocking Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) party.
Mr Malala said a group of breakaway ODM MPs had been working closely with the government, and this provided UDA with a toehold to penetrate areas hitherto seen Azimio leader Raila Odinga's strongholds.
"We have registered 9.8 million members and the Office of the Registrar of Political Parties is overwhelmed by those switching parties to UDA," said Mr Malala.
"We are holding harmonisation meetings to ensure we have one set of interim officials, and deal with rivalries," said the UDA boss.
Mr Malala revisited his controversial call for all parties under Kenya Kwanza to fold and join UDA to form a formidable machine for the 2027 General Election.
Already, Umoja na Maendeleo, Chama Cha Kazi, Chama Cha Mashinani, Economic Freedom Party and Economic Party have indicated they will embrace the call. "As for parties that have joined us, they will now be able to participate in polls," he said.
