Wamalwa dismisses Ruto’s jibe on opposition agenda, says top priority is to oust him
Democratic Action Party of Kenya (DAP-K) leader Eugene Wamalwa has hit back at President William Ruto over his remarks that the opposition lacks a clear agenda and only calls for his removal from office.
Speaking during an interview on a local TV station on Thursday, July 24, 2025, Wamalwa dismissed the president’s jibe, insisting that the opposition’s main agenda is to fight corruption, which he claims is deeply rooted in Ruto’s government.
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The opposition leader noted that the only practical way to rid the country of corruption is to send him packing.
“Nimesikia akisema kuwa upinzani hatuna ajenda. Ati tunasema atoke ndio tuwe na ajenda. Ajenda yetu kuu ni kukomesha ufisadi,” Wamalwa said.
Adding
“Kwa hivyo kumaliza ufisadi Kenya, Ruto Must Go, iyo ndo ajenda yetu kuu.”
“Na kama kuna fisadi mkuu Kenya na duniani, ni rais mwenyewe. Kama kuna serikali ya ‘wash wash’ tangu tupate uhuru, ni serikali ya William Ruto.”
Loosely translated as;
“I heard him say that the opposition has no agenda, that we’re only saying he should go so we can have one. But our main agenda is to end corruption. To eliminate corruption in Kenya, Ruto must go; that is our core agenda. And if there is a chief corrupt individual in Kenya and in the world, it is the president himself. If there has ever been a ‘wash wash’ (fraudulent) government since independence, it is William Ruto’s government.”
Ruto to detractors
Wamalwa’s remarks come just days after President Ruto challenged his critics to stop chanting “Ruto must go” and instead present concrete policy proposals.
Speaking on multiple platforms over the past week, including at the commissioning of the rehabilitated Bridge Savannah-Stage 17-Masimba Road in Nairobi and at the Nairobi Securities Exchange during the bell-ringing ceremony for the Linzi asset-backed security, the president accused the opposition of offering nothing but slogans.
“I listened to another group of friends, Kenyans, brothers and sisters, who say Ruto must go. For sure, just like those who were there before me, I will go. But respectfully, sirs and madams, let me ask you, what are your reasons for this call?” Ruto questioned.
Adding;
“What I hear is one chant: Ruto must go. That is not enough. If your plan does better than mine on jobs, on the economy, on healthcare, and on education, you should be bold enough to tell us.”
President Ruto defended his administration’s efforts to improve the lives of young people in the country, pointing to several government initiatives he said are already bearing fruit.
“We have a solid and credible plan on youth employment. Our labour mobility program has absorbed 400,000 of our young people, the affordable housing [project] has created 320,000 jobs, and our Climate WorX programme has employed another 200,000 young people,” he said in a statement on X on July 17.
Ruto also maintained that change must come through ideas and not political incitement or chaos.
“The alternative plan in the transformation of Kenya cannot be inciting young people to cause havoc in the country,” he said.
He criticised those opposed to the new healthcare and housing reforms, saying they are clinging to broken systems of the past.
“They want us to go back to NHIF? The old NHIF never worked. Do they want to return to the old university funding model? That crippled higher education. They want to abolish the housing program? That sounds like people who prefer the status quo, the familiar, no change,” he said.
