{"id":4302,"date":"2025-07-23T12:47:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T12:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kambalandtimes.com\/?p=4302"},"modified":"2025-07-23T12:48:54","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T12:48:54","slug":"please-dont-send-me-homegive-me-another-terms-and-be-the-judge-rutos-2027-plea-stirs-a-nation-tired-of-empty-promises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kambalandtimes.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/23\/please-dont-send-me-homegive-me-another-terms-and-be-the-judge-rutos-2027-plea-stirs-a-nation-tired-of-empty-promises\/","title":{"rendered":"“Please Don’t Send Me Home,give me another term and be the judge ” \u2013 Ruto\u2019s 2027 Plea Stirs a Nation Tired of Empty Promises"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wednesday\u2019s Talanta Bell Ringing Ceremony at the Nairobi Securities Exchange was meant to spotlight innovation and economic growth. Instead, it became a stage for President William Ruto to issue a direct and unexpected appeal to a weary nation: \u201cPlease don\u2019t send me home in 2027.<\/p>\n

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It was a plea that stopped Kenyans in their tracks. Not for its humility but for its irony. How could the self-declared \u2018Chief Hustler\u2019, who rose to power on promises of economic upliftment and hustler empowerment, now beg for more time, when his policies have deepened the very inequality he vowed to eliminate?<\/p>\n

\u201cThe cynics may say I am lying\u2026 but what if they are wrong?\u201d Ruto asked. But it\u2019s not cynicism driving Kenyans\u2019 discontent it\u2019s lived experience: record taxes, joblessness, broken pledges, and a government whose extravagance is blind to the daily suffering on the streets.<\/p>\n

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Ruto claims his vision is \u201cdisciplined\u201d and \u201cdeliberate.\u201d But to many, his leadership has been defined by contradictions, opulence at the top, and slogans replacing substance. With 2027 looming on the horizon, this plea felt like an admission: the people have stopped believing.<\/p>\n

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The President may want ten years but if current trends continue, the people may decide five was already too much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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