Wambugu questions Ruto’s 2055 vision, cites Sauti Sol’s prophetic ‘Tujiangalie’
Former Nyeri Town MP Wambugu Ngunjiri has come out backing up Kenya’s boy band Sauti Sol’s hit Tujiangalie after President William Ruto announced underway plans to transform Kenya in 2055 while ignoring Vision 2030.
Wambugu, who served under former President Rigathi Gachagua, made his remarks on Monday, October 13, 2025, during an interview with a local media house.
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On his part, the Sauti Sol hit, which was released seven years ago, has come out as a reality seven years down the line.
“I listened to this song that was sung by Sauti Sol; it was in 2019, talking about this letter from Jomo Kenyatta and Jaramogi and all the problems, whether we are better now than we were yesterday,” Wambugu said.
Further adding, “And it’s interesting how the more things we keep thinking are changing, the more that song is actually as true today as it was seven years ago. We are now having a conversation about Hustlers to Dynasties, about Ruto joining Gideon, and about what Ruto is saying.”
He went on criticising Ruto for ignoring Vision 2030 by launching a new first-world campaign for 2055.
“And the whole idea of whether we can turn into a first world by 2055. Ruto’s remarks about Kenya becoming a ‘first world’ nation by 2055 are meant to give Kenyans hope, but what happened to Vision 2030?” Wambugu said.
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Tujiangalie hit
At the beginning of Sauti Sol’s song Tujiangalie the Kenyan boy band poses a question in epistolary form from the nation’s founding fathers: “Is everything fine in Kenya?” The answer, damning and swift, is a resounding no. “In Kenya, we have a disaster.”
Recorded in collaboration with celebrated Kenyan rapper Nyashinski seven years ago, it offers a poetic appraisal of the problems currently plaguing Kenya, including corruption, mounting debt, economic inequality, a crisis of leadership, and the troubling connection between the clergy and the political class.
“Usingizi gani tumelala tutajua hatujui vision 2030 itabaki ni story tujiangalie tuko pabaya leo kuliko jana,” part of the lyrics by the boy band reads.
Ruto reveals plans for Kenya by 2055
President William Ruto recently announced that Kenya will transition from a third-world to a first-world nation within the next three decades.
Speaking on Sunday, October 12, 202,5 during the 70th anniversary of the African Inland Church Ziwani held at Starehe Boys in Nairobi County, Ruto said that Kenya has remained in the developing category for too long, but his administration is determined to change that through faith, unity, and hard work.
“I want to say this in church that by God’s grace we have been in the third world for far too long. We have had our fair share, and it is now time, by God’s grace, the efforts of our hands, the blessings of our plans, and the energy and unity of the people of Kenya, to move this country from a third world to a first world country in the next 30 years,” Ruto said..
He emphasised that the government has a clear vision and plan to transform the economy and improve livelihoods across the country.
The President said Kenya has the ideas, resources, and human capital required to achieve this ambitious goal, while further adding that he is convinced that this dream is achievable.
“We have what it takes, we have the ideas, the plan, the people, and the resources to take this country to a first world by 2055. I am persuaded beyond any reasonable doubt that we are going to move this country to a first world by 2055,” he added.
