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‘Wantam’ worries? How Ruto is spending millions to win over restive voters

Ruto has rolled out multi-million-shilling empowerment programmes targeting women, youth

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by JULIUS OTIENO

News17 August 2025 - 05:00
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President William Ruto during the empowerment programme of over 1,100 business groups in Nairobi. The groups received, among others, water tanks /PCS

President William Ruto has launched an aggressive and well-oiled counter-offensive to the ‘Wantam’ call, splashing huge sums of cash and hobbling the opposition to strengthen his re-election path.

Wantam is a corrupted version of one term.

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