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Street protests expose Ruto's blunder on budget making

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Some of the youth who attended mass at Holy Family Basilica Church in Nairobi said they were against Finance Bill 2024. [Collins Kweyu, Standard]

The most frightening observation about the ruling Kenya Kwanza regime is not that they may or may not be popular but that they actively seek to make themselves unpopular.

We could probably say the same thing about their competence. Nothing seems to move in a straight line.

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