This post comes from my observations of the people that attended William Ruto's swearing-in ceremony at Kasarini. I watched the video's and I have certain conclusions about the people I saw at Kasarani. In short, they looked poor. They looked like they hadn't eaten. They hadn't showered in a few days because they don't have access to water. They had bad teeth (no access to dental care -- brown teeth from lack of clean water; broken teeth; missing teethl poverty.
and as I looked at them, I said to myself that this is going to be ruto's main problem: How to reduce this poverty situation of people that look like they've just been beaten down by life. Middle class kenyans (the few that exist) will spend all day going to tv stations talking about appointments and the constitution, but on the ground, the real issue is this grinding poverty and it is this issue that Ruto, if he wants to be called a success, will have to deal with.
My fellow kenyans, it's the poverty.