Treasury Cabinet Secretary (CS) John Mbadi has defended President William Ruto’s administration against critics.
Speaking during the funeral of National Assembly Moses Wetang’ula’s mother, Ann Nanyama, held at Mukhweya Village in Bungoma County on Friday, January 3, 2025, CS Mbadi told off critics saying they were unfairly criticising the president without stating the facts.
He also defended that the Head of State was not responsible for the economic mess witnessed in the country as the previous regime created the problems. He went on to explain that the key national issues being faced today are due to the pending bills and huge debt incurred by the previous regime.
“You have given me a job to resuscitate our economy, I see a lot of concern and by the way I want to tell those of us who are in government and those supporting, the work of opposition is to criticise, even when I was in opposition I could see a hundred proposals and I would say only 5 are bad and 95 are good, it is not my business to say the good 95.
“I only want to plead with those criticising to be factual, let us be honest. If we are complaining about a bad economy saying things are difficult and questioning why life is difficult, it is because of the public debts, the pending bills, are you telling us the debt was incurred when Ruto was the president? Are you telling us that the pending bills amounting to 700 billion were incurred when Ruto was the President? Why have you forgotten how we got to where we are? Why are you blaming Ruto for fixing a problem that was created?” he posed.
While urging Kenyans to be patient with the ruling regime, CS Mbadi reaffirmed his commitment to stabilising the economy, he also vowed to help President Ruto achieve his manifesto for the country as well as ensure that other regions are not left out in terms of development.
