{"id":15197,"date":"2020-09-30T19:59:03","date_gmt":"2020-09-30T19:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/kenya\/?p=15197"},"modified":"2020-09-30T19:59:03","modified_gmt":"2020-09-30T19:59:03","slug":"dp-morphs-into-genie-grants-wishes-of-women-and-youths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/policy\/dp-morphs-into-genie-grants-wishes-of-women-and-youths","title":{"rendered":"DP morphs into genie, grants wishes of women and youths"},"content":{"rendered":"

Author:\u00a0ALLAN MUNGAI\u00a0<\/strong>
\nAfricaPress-Kenya:<\/strong> By his own counting, Deputy President William Ruto reckons that some 240 youth groups and about 8,000 youths have benefitted from his personal \u2018Team Hustler\u2019 initiatives.<\/p>\n

And yet, he sits at the apex of the government he twice helped form \u2014 first in 2013 and then in 2017.<\/p>\n

From a vantage position as a formulator of policies on jobs and wealth creation, Ruto has transformed into a genie who grants wishes of poor youths and women groups trooping to his official residence, now christened Hustler\u2019s mansion.<\/p>\n

He has divorced himself from the pledges that the Jubilee government made while seeking reelection in 2017; that they would\u00a0create 1.3 million jobs annually if re-elected for a second term.<\/p>\n

On the morning after the presidential\u00a0Covid-19 conference\u00a0that he missed, Ruto yesterday staged a parallel hustlers\u2019 parade, moving between rows of boxes of high-pressure washers, stacks of plastic seats, tables lined with food warmers, towers of sufurias, convoys of wheelbarrows and handcarts, and even hairdryers.<\/p>\n

A group of garbage collectors from Ng\u2019ando in Dagoretti South, recovering alcoholics and petty thieves were given three handcarts to help with their business.<\/p>\n

On requesting for overalls to enable their identification, Ruto turned to Lang\u2019ata MP Nixon Korir: \u201cHow much does an overall cost?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAround Sh1,000,\u201d Korir replied.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will get you 100 overalls,\u201d Ruto told the group.<\/p>\n

Keen to identify with them, Ruto claimed he once lived in Ng\u2019ando, a settlement along Ngong\u2019 Road, in the first year after he left the University of Nairobi. It is not quite clear if he says the same of other estates.<\/p>\n

Optics power<\/strong><\/p>\n

From garbage collectors to car-wash operators and women groups, Ruto hoped from every category with an easy laugh, projecting the \u201chustler clerk\u201d image he is cutting. Once in a while, he cuts a curious glance, just to make it look real and maximise on the power of the optics.<\/p>\n

\u201cIs that religious or for fashion,\u201d Ruto asks a youth who responds that he is Muslim.<\/p>\n

Occasionally, he will laugh and place his hand on the person\u2019s shoulder.\u00a0They laugh together. Optics.<\/p>\n

Ruto is a man of many hats. He wore the hat with the colours of the Kenyan flag and made it iconic. Now, though, he is wearing another\u00a0\u2013 a hipper and trendier one with the words \u2018Hustler Clerk\u2019.<\/p>\n

The new hat has come with new demands on\u00a0Ruto\u2019s register. Now he switches between English, Swahili and Sheng\u2019 and even fist bump with both hands like the youths do nowadays.<\/p>\n

In Karen\u2019s \u201cHustlers Mansion\u201d, celebrities are finding a home. There is a song by the musical group Wakali Wao, which was released a few days ago.<\/p>\n

The song called\u00a0Mboka ni Mboka\u00a0starts off with Ruto addressing a crowd at his residence in Karen and\u00a0clips of the DP\u00a0giving out posho mills, hairdryers and buses are interspersed throughout the three-minute song. That is Ruto\u2019s new anthem.\u00a0Mboka ni Mboka\u00a0loosely translates to \u2018every job matters\u2019.<\/p>\n

Yesterday, a fruit vendor from Mowlem in Nairobi brought some gifts \u2013 a bunch of bananas and a watermelon. Ruto had barely picked one from the bunch when a group of\u00a0children from Mathare\u00a0swarmed him. He gave them the bananas, optimised optics.<\/p>\n

Another visitor, a girl this time, came forth with a duck and Ruto received it with open arms. In these events, nobody wears masks anymore<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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