Kenya’s deputy president is William Samoei Ruto, 55. Ruto has been staging rallies across Kenya since his fall out with his party leader, President Uhuru Kenyatta, in 2018.
Transforming the economy is at the center of Ruto’s call. According to him, Kenya currently has a model where resources and factors of production are controlled centrally with benefits intended to trickle down to the populations. Thanks to corruption, these benefits have gone to a few well-connected people.
What this has borne, Ruto says, is the loss of income and purchasing power for the majority. The middle class has nothing to spend and is getting squeezed out. He has proposed a bottom-up economy instead.