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Why President Ruto And His Kitchen Cabinet & Holders Of Constitutional Offices Must Be Held Accountable & Prosecuted If Kenya Is To Move Forward

BY Steve Biko Wafula · March 31, 2025 05:03 am

In the courtroom of history, the people of Kenya stand as both the jury and the aggrieved. Before them, in chains of their own making, kneel the architects of despair—the political class that has looted, murdered, and betrayed the nation. The chief accused: William Samoei Ruto, the man who ascended to the throne of power through deception, coercion, and the blood of innocents. His accomplices: ministers, advisors, judges, generals, and opposition sellouts who traded the people’s trust for thirty pieces of silver. The charge: Treason against the Republic of Kenya. The sentence: Death—if justice is to truly be served.

Let the evidence be laid bare, the crimes dissected, and the verdict rendered with neither hesitation nor mercy. For there can be no peace without justice, and there can be no justice without the severing of the rotten branch from the tree of the nation.

The Blood of the Innocents: A President’s Signature in Death

The streets of Kenya have become a hunting ground where men in unmarked cars snatch sons and daughters, never to be seen again. Their crime? Daring to speak against tyranny. Their punishment? Cold, shallow graves in the wilderness. From the young men who screamed for justice in the streets of Nairobi to the quiet critics who vanished in the dead of night, their voices echo from the afterlife, demanding retribution. The government, sworn to protect, has instead become the executioner.

Who gives these orders? Who signs the death warrants of Kenyans whose only weapon is their voice? The trail of blood leads to State House. The ink on the orders of abduction and execution is wet with the fingerprints of Ruto’s regime. The law demands that murderers be punished. If a common man who takes one life faces the hangman’s noose, what fate befits a leader whose reign is measured in corpses?

The Corruption of Justice: When the Law Serves the Tyrant

The Chief Justice was meant to be the guardian of fairness, yet today, the courts are nothing but ceremonial halls where justice is auctioned to the highest bidder. When the son of a poor farmer is caught stealing a loaf of bread, he rots in prison for years. But when government officials loot billions meant for hospitals, their cases drag on until the people forget. What greater crime is there than bending the law to protect criminals?

And then there is the National Intelligence Service, not serving the people, but whispering in the president’s ear, ensuring the crackdown on dissidents is swift and brutal. The Kenya Defence Forces, once respected for their honor, have been reduced to a mercenary force, guarding foreign interests while Kenyans perish. The Inspector General of Police, the Director of Public Prosecutions—all guilty, all complicit in a conspiracy against the Republic. The punishment for treason is death. Shall we carve exceptions for those who have bathed the Constitution in blood?

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A Nation Sold for Foreign Pennies

Kenya was once a diplomatic force, a respected elder in the community of nations. But today, our name is dragged through the mud of Ruto’s reckless dealings. He begs for loans like a pauper at every foreign doorstep, indebting the future generations to lifetimes of slavery. His foreign policy is a string of catastrophic blunders, alienating allies and kneeling before foreign masters who see Kenya as nothing but a pawn to be traded.

Is this not betrayal? Is this not a crime against the people who entrusted him with sovereignty? The punishment for selling a nation into servitude is not a retirement pension. It is not exile. It is the rope, the sword, the gallows.

The Death of Healthcare: A Crime of Neglect

There was a time when a sick Kenyan could walk into a hospital and expect treatment. Today, public hospitals are morgues with waiting rooms. Doctors, underpaid and overworked, watch helplessly as patients die from lack of medicine. The Social Health Insurance Fund (SHIF), a scam wrapped in law, demands that the poor contribute to a fund that serves no one but cartels.

Who is responsible for this? The policymakers, the thieves in expensive suits who drained the veins of the health sector and left only a husk. When a leader knowingly enacts policies that kill citizens, is it not murder by another name? And what is the prescribed sentence for murder?

Education as a Weapon of Oppression

Once, education was the ladder through which a Kenyan child could escape poverty. Today, it is a business venture where fees skyrocket while quality plummets. The Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC) is an elaborate maze designed not to educate but to confuse and frustrate. It is a deliberate dumbing down of a generation, ensuring they grow up without the tools to challenge their oppressors.

What greater crime is there than the calculated destruction of the future? And what greater punishment should befall those who wield ignorance as a weapon against the people?

A Government of Thieves, For Thieves, By Thieves

Ruto’s regime has institutionalized theft. Ministers and lawmakers see public coffers as personal treasure chests. The billions looted could have built hospitals, roads, and schools, but instead, they built mansions, bought luxury cars, and fattened foreign bank accounts.

The law is clear: grand theft of public resources is a capital offense. What does a nation do with leaders who steal not just money but the very lifeblood of its people? Shall we let them retire in peace, or shall we apply the justice they denied their victims?

Uhuru Kenyatta: The Silent Accomplice

Uhuru Kenyatta cannot feign innocence. Under his rule, money laundering flourished, cartels thrived, and the foundations of the current rot were laid. He nurtured a viper and left it in the people’s nest. His hands, though perhaps not as visibly stained with blood, are soaked in economic sabotage. Justice demands that he, too, faces the reckoning.

The Ghosts of Forgotten Reports: Why Past Investigations Must Be Implemented

Kenya is a nation haunted by the ghosts of ignored investigations, buried truths, and unimplemented reports. Like a chronic disease left untreated, the symptoms of corruption, extrajudicial killings, economic sabotage, and political betrayal keep resurfacing because the prescriptions for justice have been ignored. From the Ndung’u Report on land grabbing to the TJRC Report on historical injustices, from the Auditor General’s reports exposing grand theft to the Kroll Report detailing looted billions—each document is a tombstone of lost justice. The failure to implement these findings has emboldened criminals in high office and sentenced ordinary Kenyans to generational suffering.

What is the purpose of investigations if their findings are locked away in government vaults, gathering dust instead of delivering justice? Why do commissions of inquiry exist if their recommendations are treated as optional suggestions rather than urgent directives? Every report ignored is a criminal given a free pass to continue plundering. Every unimplemented recommendation is a death sentence for a future whistleblower, a starving child, or an ailing patient in a neglected hospital.

Take the Truth, Justice, and Reconciliation Commission (TJRC) Report, which meticulously documented decades of ethnic massacres, state-sponsored assassinations, and economic sabotage by successive regimes. The report recommended restitution for victims, prosecution of perpetrators, and policy reforms to prevent further injustice. Yet, more than a decade later, it remains just ink on paper. Those who oversaw mass killings now sit comfortably in boardrooms and parliaments. Their victims lie in unmarked graves, their families still waiting for an apology that may never come.

Then there is the Ndung’u Land Report, an exposé on how Kenya’s most fertile lands, public forests, and key economic zones were stolen by politicians, military officials, and corporate elites. The report called for repossession and redistribution, but instead, those who looted the land now sell it back to the public at inflated prices. They build malls on stolen property while the homeless sleep on pavements. Implementing this report would mean returning land to its rightful owners, but because the thieves are in power, justice remains elusive.

The Kroll Report, commissioned to trace wealth stolen by the Moi regime, revealed offshore accounts holding billions that should have funded Kenya’s development. The report outlined clear legal avenues for asset recovery, yet the money remains abroad, enriching former regime officials and their families while Kenyans sink deeper into poverty. Why? Because those who should enforce justice are beneficiaries of the looting.

Every election cycle, presidential candidates promise to revisit these reports, only to abandon them once they secure power. Why? Because to act on these reports is to dig up the skeletons of the very system that protects them. To implement them would mean sending former presidents, current ministers, and business moguls to jail. It would mean seizing stolen wealth and dismantling networks of corruption that sustain Kenya’s ruling elite.

Yet, the people must demand it. Implementing past reports is not just about justice for past crimes; it is about preventing future crimes. It is about closing the loopholes that allow corruption to thrive. It is about ensuring that Kenya does not remain trapped in a cycle where the same crimes are repeated by new faces in government. Justice delayed is justice denied, but justice abandoned is a crime in itself.

Kenya must rise and demand that the truth no longer be hidden. The files must be opened, the perpetrators named, the stolen wealth recovered, and the guilty punished. For without accountability, the nation will forever be a playground for thieves, and the people will remain spectators in a game where they are always the losers.

The Verdict: The Nation’s Judgment

Some will say, “Let them be. Let them retire in peace.” But peace built on injustice is an illusion. A thief, left unpunished, will steal again. A murderer, left free, will kill again. A traitor, left to roam, will betray again.

History shows us that no nation moves forward without first exorcising its demons. France had its guillotine. Liberia had its purge. Rwanda had its reckoning. Shall Kenya be the exception? Or shall Kenya finally stand and demand that the wicked pay for their crimes in the highest court—the people’s court?

This is not a call for vengeance. It is a demand for justice. And justice is blind to power, blind to wealth, blind to political alliances. Justice sees only the crime and demands the fitting punishment. If it is to be death, let it be. If it is to be life in prison, let it be. But let it be swift. Let it be final. Let it be unshakable.

For only then will Kenya be free. Only then will the nation heal. Only then will the future belong to the righteous, and the wicked be buried in the pages of history, never to rise again.

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Steve Biko is the CEO OF Soko Directory and the founder of Hidalgo Group of Companies. Steve is currently developing his career in law, finance, entrepreneurship and digital consultancy; and has been implementing consultancy assignments for client organizations comprising of trainings besides capacity building in entrepreneurial matters.He can be reached on: +254 20 510 1124 or Email: info@sokodirectory.com

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