- Aukot called out Kiambu Governor Kimani Wamatangi for being defensive of the current administration.
- Wamatangi was among the panel members during the interview.
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Thirdway Alliance Party leader Ekuru Aukot has implored the government to get to work and deliver on the campaign promises rather than pointing fingers over past regime failures.
Speaking during an interview on Thursday morning, Aukot called out Kiambu Governor Kimani Wamatangi for being defensive of the current administration.
Wamatangi was among the panel members during the interview.
“Kimani Wamatangi himself is not talking about the failures of the previous government in Kiambu County but instead addressing those problems. That is the trajectory governance we want to see,” Aukot said.
To move on as a country, the Thirdway Alliance party leader asked the government to focus on its legacy.
He gave an example of the late President Mwai Kibaki’s administration where no faults were aimed at the previous government.
“Kibaki did not get stuck up on what he inherited from Moi’s regime. He worked and never kept reminding the people of the faults Moi made when in power,” he said.
He further referred to Ruto’s government as an ‘expanded government’ that came with a huge expenditure.
This, he said, comes with costs that would have been used to foot development projects.
“One of the campaigns promises President William Ruto made was that he would run a lean government. But the first thing we saw was an expanded government that came with a huge expenditure,” he said.
He said there are opportunities in each and every part of the country including the most remote area that the government should leverage to turn around the economy.
Aukot said the country should focus on the available products we have in our country so as to also create job opportunities instead of importing from other countries.