Your time is up, leave Kalonzo alone! Wiper party warns Ruto amid clash

The Wiper Party has come to its leader’s defence, Kalonzo Musyoka, after endless attacks from President William Ruto.

President Ruto went for Kalonzo’s jugular after he scoffed at the president’s ambitious development plans, forcing Ruto to term Kalonzo a pessimist and lacks authority to lecture him on his ambitious development agendas.

While Ruto has maintained his bare knuckle attacks on the Wiper boss, the party has now warned the president to desist from affronting Kalonzo and focus on running his administrative role.

In a statement on Friday, the party argued that Ruto’s remarks expose how he is ‘politically cornered’ and is only attempting to use Kalonzo as a whipping boy to distract Kenyans from reprimanding his administration.

“Ruto knows what every Kenyan knows: his time is up. The people have made their choice. And in his desperation, he has unleashed his digital militia and propaganda machine in a futile attempt to destroy what he cannot buy: Kalonzo Musyoka's integrity and the people's trust,” the statement read in part.

“His attacks on Kalonzo Musyoka are not about development. They are the desperate flailing of a failed President who sees his defeat coming and is trying everything to capture opposition strongholds before Kenyans remove him from power in 2027.”

The party accused President Ruto of sabotaging the growth of the nation since he took power in 2022, arguing that he has claimed credit for projects executed by other leaders.

Wiper believes that the Kibwezi- Mutomo- Kitui-Bondoni road, an infrastructure at the heart of the duo’s tussle, was launched by Kalonzo in 2011 while he was Vice President but was later sabotaged by the Jubilee regime in 2013 when Ruto was Deputy President.

“The sabotage began (2013). Kalonzo revealed that elements within the Jubilee administration, Ruto's regime, wrote to EXIM Bank of China terming the road "not economically viable" to kill the project. This was deliberate, calculated sabotage,” the party argued.

They claimed that the project was relaunched on December 2016 and President Ruto has no right to claim credit for the road’s construction.

Wiper also accused Ruto of being “a dictator in democratic clothing", claiming that he has crippled key sectors among them education, healthcare and looting of public resources has been on an alarming rise.

“JKIA, our gateway to the world. Kenya Pipeline, our energy lifeline. Safaricom, built with Kenyan sweat and investment are all being auctioned off to Ruto's friends and foreign bidders without public participation, without following the law, without shame,” Wiper argued.

The party therefore noted that no amount of mudslinging will tarnish Kalonzo’s image, arguing that his  integrity has been proven over decades of public service.

“Ruto's regime is a three-year disaster that shall and will end in 2027. The Wiper Patriotic Front, alongside our partners in the United Opposition, will be the anchor of Kenya's restoration,” it noted.

Meanwhile, President Ruto has unveiled a Ksh.5 trillion “road to Singapore development dream” that he says will earn Kenya a first world status within a decade.

Kalonzo has rebutted the ambitious plan, dismissing it as unrealistic and constitutionally flawed.