Cheap Power & Tokens is Not in Our Agenda, Ruto's Think Tank Man Reveals as Kenyans Reacts

When President William Ruto was campaigning for the presidency, he really convinced Kenyans that he's the chosen one to end the woes and worries that Kenyans have been facing. The now head of State laid out his plan, where he intended to change the life of common mwanaichi by making things achievable.

Six months down the line, the pledges are slowly fading away with it's execution and realization becoming an illusion. Over the last few months since he ascended to power, lives have become even harder than it was under president Uhuru Kenyatta.

From the high cost of living, to the high taxes, Kenyans have been left wondering whether it was just a campaign strategy to get to power and forget them. When Ruto was taking the oath of office he made several promises among them reducing the cost of unga to as low as sh100, give youths jobs, offer credit facilities to small scale traders to boost their businesses, and reduce the cost of electricity.

Things however are just the opposite of what he promised. Instead of them reducing, they are only skyrocketing leaving Kenyans grabbling with life. The electricity cost in specific has been so expensive with over half of what is spend on buying tokens goes to the government in form of taxes.

Today, Ruto's economic advisor David Ndii has come out open where he revealed that cheap electricity was not in the Kenya Kwanza agenda. While speaking today on a morning show in one of the media houses, Ndii said that Kenya have a choice of either expensive electricity available 24/7 or cheap one available in just few hours of the day.

"On power bill, we have two choices; costly power available 24/7 or cheap power available a few hours a day, like SA. If you cared to peruse out (Kenya Kwanza) manifesto, you would have noted that cheap power does not feature in our pledges on electricity." David Ndii - president's council of Economic Advisors.

Ndii went ahead to say that what was captured on their manifesto is not to lower the power tariffs but the cost of production and distribution.

"Take time to understand what you read. I have said we did not promise “cheap power” Bring down cost here refers of production costs not tariffs. The listed are heavy medium term capital investments that will not bring down tariffs anytime soon." Ndii added.