President Ruto: I won’t be intimidated by opposition ‘noise’

President William Ruto arrives for a church service at Makadara on June 8, 2025. PHOTO/HANDOUT.

Speaking during a Sunday church service in Makadara, Nairobi, the President dismissed his critics, saying he has no time for “empty rhetoric.”

“I am committed, I am determined, I am focused, and no amount of intimidation and name-calling is going to change my course. I have enough time to do that,’’ President Ruto said.

“This country is going to change before our very eyes. That’s why you see many people resisting, but I don’t pay attention to their noise.”

Ruto emphasised that he is determined to transform Kenya through the implementation of his administration’s key pillars, particularly affordable housing and universal health coverage.

“It is God who gave me this job—the opportunity to lead and serve Kenya. He also gave me the assignment to transform this nation, and I will see it through,” he said.

Noting that programmes such as affordable housing have been on the agenda for decades without implementation, the President said it was now his responsibility to actualise that vision.

The President’s remarks come amid intensifying criticism of his affordable housing programme. Opposition leaders have vowed to scrap the housing levy if elected in 2027.

Critics argue that mandatory deductions for the levy have burdened the working class, who are being taxed without a clear guarantee of home ownership.

It has seen salaried Kenyans part with 1.5 per cent of their pay, matched by employers, since 2023.