Admit You Made Heavy, Unrealistic Promises- Ole Sapit To Ruto
Sapit pressured President Ruto to come clean and tell Kenyans that some of the promises he made could not be met.
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The Archbishop of the Anglican Church of Kenya Jackson Ole Sapit, on Thursday, May 25, pressured President William Ruto to confess that his 2022 campaign promises are unrealistic.
Speaking in Bungoma, Sapit warned the Head of State that he risked losing the confidence and faith Kenyans had in him and his words if he continues to make promises and omit the most pressing ones.
Sapit pressured President Ruto to come clean and tell Kenyans that some of the promises he made could not be met.
“I know you made heavy promises during campaigns, and we knew that most of them we unrealistic. Those promises portrayed Kenya as a little even immediately after the elections.
Anglican Chuch of Kenya leader Jackson Ole Sapit during a past media briefing. /CAPITAL GROUP
"It is now the moment to face the truth, just come out and tell Kenyans that the promises we made are unrealistic, and now let's go to prioritization," Sapit stated.
Ole Sapit further explained that Ruto could be putting unnecessary pressure on the country by trying to be unique from the rest of the countries across the world.
"Identify the national priorities in a manner that would offer solutions to the most pressing needs of the country.
"If you try to push so hard to achieve what you promised and we all know that you don't have the resources to deliver, then you are going to break everybody's back, you will even break your back struggling to make the impossible to happen,” he added.
The Archbishop also looked to have spelt doom for Ruto while trying to honour Kenyans' demands for better service delivery as he had promised during his campaigns, believing that some promises can be saved for his second term if re-elected in 2027.
"You will also break your back while trying to achieve what you know so well will be impossible in the short term. Let us humble ourselves and face the truth and re-schedule the promises.
"When the promises we make cannot give us the right results, then we should stop and ask ourselves how to move on from where we are," Sapit stated.
Sapit's remarks came as the Kenya Kwanza administration has been facing a Goliath kind of pressure to honour pledges amid a struggling economy that saw the prices of essential commodities skyrocket.
For instance, the proposed 3 per cent Housing Fund deductions and new taxes that are in the 2023 Financial Bill, which is closer to becoming law, have been subjected to uproar across the country.
President Ruto's key election pledges leading to the August 2022 Presidential candidates included a reduction of the cost of living in the first 100 days in office. However, this has turned out to be his greatest headache.
Ruto alternatively sought to invest in agriculture and increase food production locally in order to create a surplus system that would be sold cheaply, in place of subsidies which were common in former President Uhuru Kenyatta's administration.
To achieve this, Ruto's administration ratified a fertiliser subsidy that allowed farmers to buy a 50kg bag at Ksh3,500 down from over Ksh6,000. The president argued that the approach would lower the cost of production and increase yields.
President Ruto also pledged to create one million jobs per year by investing in manufacturing and infrastructure, including the Affordable Housing Programme.
He also rolled out the Ksh50 billion Hustler Fund loan kitty which involved the setting up of special financing to be actualised through the Infrastructure Fund, National Housing Fund, Settlement Fund and Social Welfare.
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