UDA v DAP-K: Of development and empty tribal promises
While the government aligned team led by President William Ruto’s aide Farouk Kibet visits Malava constituency with goodies and development, Ex-Minister Eugene Wamalwa is leading a brigade full of hopelessness.
As UDA comes loaded with empowerment programs, electricity connection, water projects and even improvement of roads with the most recent being launch of upgrade of Samitsi- Navakholo road to Bitumen standards, the opposition team under Eugene Wamalwa is simply visiting the area to sell hatred and abuses against other leaders with no tangible agenda.
Kibet has moved around all the seven wards of Malava in the company of senior government officials among them Prime Cabinet secretary Musalia Mudavadi, National Assembly Majority Leader Kimani Ichung’wah, Senate majority leader Aaron Cheruyoti and members of Parliament drawn from across the country for self help groups empowerment programs that has endeared himself well with the electorate even as thousands of locals have opened businesses that are sustaining their lives.
Many schools have been built, buses bought for institutions and face-lift carried through personal and government support of Kibet.
Wamalwa, on the other hand, only comes in to talk about other elected leaders and tribalism agenda, which many view as an outdated approach to politics.
Many now view Kibet as an issue-based leader who can unite the country while the opposition leaders are tribalists who are segmenting the country while fighting for personal interests with no public interests at heart.
