ODM leader Raila Odinga has exuded confidence that President William Ruto’s new broad-based government will live up to the expectations of Kenyans.
Raila said his party has people who will help the President deliver on his pledges.
“We have given him experts, you will now see things changing,” Raila told a gathering at Toi Market in Nairobi Monday evening.
He said the President disbanded the Cabinet and asked to be given people who will assist him to deliver his promises to the people.
The ODM leader gave a nod to the new government formation that has four members of his party nominated to the new-look Cabinet.
Ruto nominated ODM's two deputy party leaders Hassan Joho and Wycliffe Oparanya, national chairman John Mbadi and National Assembly minority leader Opiyo Wandayi to his Cabinet.
Joho was named CS nominee for the Ministry of Mining, Blue Economy and Maritime Affairs; Mbadi was given National Treasury; Oparanya Cooperatives and MSME Development CS nominee while Wandayi was proposed for appointment as the Energy and Petroleum CS.
Vetting ended on Sunday and the National Assembly Committee on Appointments has retreated to write its report.
While addressing traders and residents of Toi Market on his visit after a Saturday dawn fire razed the market, Raila said the Opposition took to the streets last year because of high cost of living, lack of job opportunities, run away corruption and negative ethnicity in government.
“When employing teachers, nurses, in the police or military, they would look at where one’s tribe first but when they are collecting taxes, they do not discriminate, everybody is targeted,” he said.
Raila said the Gen Z also spoke about the same issues during their recent countrywide protests.
“It is the same things they have been talking about and we insist that these issues must be addressed,” the ODM leader asserted.
Ruto has reaffirmed his commitment to form a government of national unity that will bring all Kenyans together to address issues facing the country.
He admitted that the youth-led protests, which rocked the country the past one month, were a wake-up call that the days of outdated politics are over.
Ruto said the series of protests presented the country with an opportunity to start afresh by forming a government that has the face of the country.
Ruto urged his critics and all Kenyans to embrace his idea of a government of national unity saying it was necessary to go that route.
