Are Kenyans judging Ruto too harshly or has he just failed?

President William Ruto in Lari, Kiambu County, inspected the Mau Mau Road Lot 1A and Lot 1B that will ease transport of people and goods, and connect Kiambu to other counties. [PCS]

When he said Kenyans were judging him rather harshly during a televised interview last Monday, President William Ruto must have had the ‘Ruto must go’ chants at the back of his mind.

Dr Ruto was the portrait of an optimist who believed he would achieve the lofty promises he made to Kenyans as he campaigned to be president. In the interim, things were mostly working fine.

The Head of State was an image of desperation, too. Despite what he thought was making the best of the cards handed to him, the substantial debt burden inherited from former President Uhuru Kenyatta, a struggling economy, and a populace weighed down by a high cost of living, Ruto, seemingly, could not do right by significant sections of the youth.