Does it harm for Jubilee to admit that the ideas are NOT their own?
Why would they do that if they can benefit from claiming the ideas? Wouldn't doing so be a bit stupid? Besides, aren't such claims the norm in Kenya? The aspiring MP campaigns on "
I will bring you this road, water supply, ...", and when the government eventually acts on some old plan, the incumbent goes on with "
see I brought you this and that". My local MP is, on the whole, useless but still does very well. When I asked the locals why they think he is a good leader, the best they could come up with was "
He brought us CDF money".
Look, the average Kenyan doesn't go around looking at ideas, plans, their history, etc.; he or she looks at just the here-and-now. To get the level of understanding you seem to expect requires a level of civic education that nobody---neither CORD nor Jubilee---is really interested in. Too much hard work. SO best to just accept the reality.
Ruto's daily mantra is "the opposition has no ideas" while implementing what the very opposition came up with.
First, you really shouldn't say the opposition, unless you also count Kibaki's side as part of the opposition. Second, is Ruto really wrong? I have heard plenty from the CORD side on how Jubilee is messing up; but I have heard very little on how CORD would do things differently.