By Patricia Mollyne Mataga
Ruto setting Kenya for global alienation – Kabando wa Kabando
Former Mukurweini Member of Parliament Kabando wa Kabando has faulted President William Ruto’s foreign policies.
Kabando argues that the President has been acting in the intrests of Europe and the US, a move he cautions might backfire on Kenya in the near future.
In a post on his verified X handle, the former legislator named Kenya’s stand on the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war and planned deployment of the Kenya Police to Haiti as some of Ruto’s miscalculations.
Kenya has sided with the West in condemning Russia for invading Ukraine. It also plans to take police officers to Haiti which is facing a street gang battle.
“Airborne’ Ruto is a dollar-euro puppet setting for global alienation, ridicule, and security risks. Fighting Russia. Messing Haiti. Trampling the 1955 ‘NON-ALIGNED MOVEMENT’ agenda. Greed trashing VISION of Pioneers – Tito, Nehru, Nasser, Nkrumah, Indira Ghadhi, Ho Chi Minh,” Kabando said.
His sentiments come at a time when the President is in Switzerland for the Ukraine Peace Summit.
During the summit, Ruto voiced Kenya’s strong support of Ukraine and condemnation of Russia’s aggression.
He regretted that the war had a devastating impact across the world, including Africa.
According to Ruto, Kenya had not been spared as the war in Ukraine had led to increased prices of fertilisers.
The high cost of fuel and farm inputs has been some of the areas linked to the Russia-Ukraine war.
At the height of the conflict, a 50 kilogram bag of planting fertilizer retailed at as high as Ksh6,000.
But currently, the government is providing fertilizer subsidies to farmers at a cost of Ksh1,500 per bag.
Meanwhile, President Ruto urged the world to also pay attention to the forgotten wars tearing apart Africa’s social fabric.
“Africa’s many long-running and long-forgotten wars continue unabated, wreaking unimaginable devastation on a daily basis,” he told the Ukraine Peace Summit.
Ruto noted that that at least 16 different conflicts are raging “on our continent”, from the Western Sahel to the Horn of Africa in the East, and from the Lake Chad basin to the Great Lakes region.