Kamukunji MP Yusuf Hassan now blames naivety for the disappointments Kenyan voters have, from their elected leaders.
Speaking on Thursday, the legislators said it is also time Kenyans stopped believing political promises can be fulfilled just one year into office.
He called on voters to be more realistic since a lot determines how much a government can achieve in a year.
Yusuf noted that the voters should have realised the Kenyan economy was in a very bad state and that even if the President had the right people in place, not much could have been done to turn around the situation.
"Any politician who goes into the political market would have a program and pledges. It was very clear from the beginning that there the naivety of the Kenyan voters that they believe political pledges and promises were going to happen the next day, exactly when the government changes, regardless of the economic conditions in which we are," he said on Citizen TV.
"We should be more realistic. You must have known in 2022 the economic condition was so bad that it would not take a year or two to turn it around even if you had the right people to do it."
A poll released by Tifa Research on Wednesday said a majority of Kenyans were disappointed with the performance of the current administration.
The legislator further stated that the voters should take the blame for believing in the illusion politicians sold to them, instead of looking deeply at the issues in question.
He said that is how politics works across the world and there is no single politician who does not make promises.
"The first thing we must admit is that even the public themselves believed in that illusion they were being offered. They were not looking below or deeper into those issues. They bought what they were given," Yusuf said.
He added that five years is still a very short time for much development to be achieved, citing the bureaucracies and budget systems processes involved.
Yusuf said that he does not think the country would have done much if the country operated as it did before.
"I think some of the reasons people are dissatisfied is because there have been hard economic decisions the government has made that will in the short term hurt people, but in the long term will be beneficial."