Prezzo Ruto delivers April Fool's day stunt by taking road to ruin

On that Sh10b question, I don’t know what to make of it because Riggy G also made some reference to big monies being set aside for renting crowds during Prezzo’s tour of the Mountain. He asked people to accept the cash, roho safi, because it is stolen from them.

It is not clear if money exchanged hands during Riggy G’s impeachment — some MPs claimed it did — and whose architect was Prezzo Ruto, as many of his lieutenants confirmed they were doing his bidding. So this Sh10b question doesn’t seem too far-fetched. We just don’t know who had the kitty, between Prezzo Ruto and Riggy G.

But that’s not my problem. Since both have complicated relationship with the truth — just see how Riggy G gave Murima a wide berth after months of sounding drums of war and dancing himself lame — vowing Prezzo Ruto would not be allowed to set foot there. Honestly, I feel cheated it is a duel that never was.

Many Kenyans, too, feel cheated, starting with the Laikipia politician who lamented that she opted not to plait her hair because it’d be covered in dust, necessitating a thorough cleaning. I don’t want to speculate if she’ll be cleaning her hair if the road is done.

That would be trivialising a rather grave issue because the said road was commissioned in January 2022 and some Sh3b set aside for the task, according to then Roads Permanent Secretary Paul Maringa.

This week, Prezzo Ruto said he’d ask his Roads PS to look into the issue again. He did not invoke the name of the PS (possibly because he’s unsure who is in charge, given the musical chairs at his Cabinet), or even the specifics of what he’d be asking of the PS.

Early last year, Prezzo made a similar commitment to look into that very road, claiming it was weighing heavily on his mind. This week, he did not perform his road chant: “Hiyo barabara itoke Nanyuki ifike Rumuruti, ipitie Check Point…” because Kenyans on X have shown him dust thicker than that of Laikipia.

The simple truth is that for all the braggadocio that characterised his tour of the Big Mountain, Prezzo Ruto would do well to remember that the Mt Kenya folks, while very independent and reasonable, have much longer memory than the Nanyuki-Rumuruti Road that remains unpaved, three years since its “launch”.”

And while it’s possible to rent crowds at the princely sum of Sh10b by dishing it out directly as Riggy G claims Prezzo Ruto did, or indirectly, by giving it to Riggy G to sambaza, as Prezzo Ruto claims Riggy G asked to, he’d better remember he can only rent, not buy people of the Mount.