Ruto's tough balancing act to push bottom-up agenda, please hustlers

President William Ruto during a past event in Likuyani Constituency, Kakamega County. [PCS]

For its first year in office, President William Ruto's Kenya Kwanza administration faired pretty well in sustaining the twin 'hustler/bottom-up' narrative that propelled it to power.

In policy, word, and act, President Ruto - by and large - stuck to the narrative when forming his government, formulating its policies, selling them to Parliament and the public, and implementing them in the last 12 months of rule.

During the campaigns, the narrative sounded lofty, some would say a long con, given the very elitist structure of governments as they have been known in the country.