{"id":14307,"date":"2020-09-13T17:37:50","date_gmt":"2020-09-13T17:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/kenya\/?p=14307"},"modified":"2020-09-13T17:37:50","modified_gmt":"2020-09-13T17:37:50","slug":"raila-ruto-throws-crumbs-to-the-poor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/policy\/raila-ruto-throws-crumbs-to-the-poor","title":{"rendered":"Raila: Ruto throws crumbs to the poor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Author:\u00a0David Ochami\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>AfricaPress-Kenya:<\/strong> In what is shaping up to be a\u00a0contest of jibes, poverty found its place in the national discourse as ODM leader Raila Odinga accused Deputy President William Ruto of deriving pleasure in seeing the poor scramble for alms and tokens from him.<\/p>\n<p>In an indirect reference to his antagonist, Raila said: \u201cWhy should you delight in dishing out tokens to people?\u201d in his latest jibe at Ruto, who he has previously\u00a0sparred with\u00a0over his habit of making large cash donations to churches, youth and women groups.<\/p>\n<p>The taunt came only a day after the DP publicly wondered why Raila was \u2018obsessed\u2019 with his charitable acts, saying he was \u201cforever criticising such deeds instead of assisting those who are in need.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While addressing a delegation of religious leaders in his Sugoi home on Friday, Ruto said, \u201cStop complaining throughout. You have become a perennial complainant. You complain when you are defeated in elections and even when in government. You complain everywhere. You really take the crown\u00a0for complaining.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He continued: \u201cI don\u2019t know what problem some people have and I really sympathise with them because when I host delegations at my residence, they complain. When I go to church, they complain. When I make church donations, they complain.\u00a0When I support the youth by donating boda bodas, they still complain.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Poverty line<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He further told the delegation from Migori that the country has many problems, with\u00a0more than\u00a0six million people jobless and\u00a0nearly 17 million living below the poverty line.\u00a0\u201cSo you want to tell me you have nothing else to do apart from discussing me from morning to evening, week after week? Does it mean you have no plans of your own?<\/p>\n<ul class=\"list-group readmore my-3\">\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\"><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cLet us help each other. If I donate a motorbike to one,\u00a0you give another a motor vehicle. If I give a handcart, you give anything,\u201d the DP said.<\/p>\n<p>Ruto added that he had been blessed with much hence his desire to give. \u201cLet us be mindful about the sorry situation of millions of Kenyans struggling to meet their daily needs and, above all, put food on the table.<\/p>\n<p>Let us acknowledge that every hustle matters.\u00a0\u201cI have been lifted up by God\u00a0so I lift others, assist and work with the Church. I am not relenting. If you are complaining, be prepared well because you will complain for many days. I am not about to stop.\u00a0I\u2019m not going anywhere.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But\u00a0Raila yesterday accused\u00a0the DP of engaging in \u2018manipulation\u2019\u00a0to advance personal goals while\u00a0opposing the Building Bridges Initiative\u00a0(BBI), which the ODM leader said seeks a holistic transformation of society.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe delights in throwing crumbs to women and the youth so that they can be happy,\u201d said Raila, adding that\u00a0the DP and his allies were leading a disinformation campaign against the BBI.\u00a0The former premier, who is in the Coast to drum up support for\u00a0BBI, said Ruto\u00a0was working to ensure the government he serves fails.<\/p>\n<p>He claimed Ruto\u2019s displays of philanthropy derived\u00a0from an unwillingness to initiate systems and policies that would ensure Kenyans were self-reliant.\u00a0Addressing delegates at the Wild Waters Resort in Mombasa,<\/p>\n<p>Raila said the BBI seeks legal, administrative and constitutional changes \u201cthat will transform Kenya\u2019s material condition from a poor State and make it prosperous, peaceful and democratic.\u201d\u00a0He said the stalemate over the sharing of Sh316 billion by counties would not have arisen if the economy generated more wealth to be shared among the regions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBesides promoting economic transformation and equity, the\u00a0BBI has proposed to share no less than 35 per cent of national revenues among the devolved units,\u201d he said.\u00a0Raila further argued that the country\u2019s economic problems were derived from a system that engenders poverty and exclusion, which\u00a0could be cured by the BBI. He suggested that the DP had oversimplified Kenya\u2019s economic troubles and promoted the idea that\u00a0the solution lay in public displays of giving charity and alms.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe solution to Kenya\u2019s problems is more complex than just dishing out gifts to people. He has been in government for eight years. Is it now that he realises that mothers need water tanks and youth need wheelbarrows?\u201d posed Raila.<\/p>\n<p>The ODM leader said he and President Uhuru Kenyatta agreed to launch the BBI after realising that Kenya\u2019s future could only be secured in legal and constitutional changes that also acknowledged past mistakes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Secure future<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe spoke for a very long time and agreed that what has happened has passed and we could not change it. We agreed that we could secure the future.\u201d\u00a0Raila said the second BBI report will be out soon and will be published for public debate when the Covid-19 curve flattens.<\/p>\n<p>The opposition leader has been in the Coast since Wednesday meeting leaders to promote the BBI. He was in Taita Taveta on Wednesday and Thursday and traveled to Kwale for a rally on Friday.\u00a0His tour followed a recent visit by the DP who travelled to Taita Taveta and Mombasa.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, Raila\u00a0held three meetings in Mombasa and Mtwapa in Kilifi. During one meeting, Mombasa Governor Hassan Ali Joho said President Kenyatta had become more accessible to the opposition and empathetic to Coast residents following his unity agreement with the opposition leader\u00a0on March 9, 2018.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe handshake has made the President accessible to us. 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