United Opposition Spokesperson Mukhisa Kituyi has strongly criticized President William Ruto’s economic management, describing his administration as “reckless” and accusing it of deepening public debt while misallocating resources.
Speaking on Radio Generation on Tuesday, Kituyi said the country is experiencing “ever-increasing number of taxes, ever-increasing scandals of misallocation of public resources, ever-increasing reversals on public goods, like a comprehensively priced education,” which he said “are not how to build bottom up” and instead perpetuate poverty.
Kituyi also highlighted what he described as “grandiose and criminally reckless expenditure” by the Ruto administration, citing the cost of keeping multiple presidential helicopters in the air daily and the bloated number of presidential advisers.
“How can you have 59 advisers and your permanent secretaries and directors, specialized officers in government, and bypass them to pick some political clowns and call them advisers?” he asked.
He warned that such decisions, combined with an appetite for borrowing, are creating a debt burden that will be inherited by future generations.
“Nobody in the history of this country has borrowed anywhere close to the recklessness of Ruto, and certainly nobody has spent as lavishly,” he added, noting that Ruto’s borrowing strategy—using expensive commercial debt to retire cheaper multilateral debt—will exacerbate costs for the next generation.
The United Opposition spokesperson also accused the administration of reversing key social programs and disrupting public services.
He cited examples such as the ostensible replacement of the National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF), as well as controversial housing initiatives, stating that the changes are “going to halt major public services with repercussions.”
He further criticized the handling of social security and healthcare programs, saying the government has “totally destroyed the architecture of Social Security in the country” and engaged in practices marked by “lack of transparency” and “greed.”
Kituyi warned that the current trajectory has left the nation in an “uncomfortable place” that even the next government will struggle to resolve.
“We have patterns that even the next President is not going to fix… we have to start digging ourselves out of that hole,” he said, emphasizing that Ruto’s administration is not only failing to address structural weaknesses in public policy but is actively compounding them through mismanagement and poor fiscal choices.
This criticism comes amid growing national debate over the country’s rising debt, public expenditure, and the sustainability of key social programs under the current government.
