Kalonzo fires back at Ruto over ‘No road to his home’ remark
Wiper Patriotic Front party leader Kalonzo Musyoka has hit back at President William Ruto, disputing remarks the state leader made about road infrastructure in his home area.
Speaking during a public engagement on Monday, Kalonzo said Ruto focused on him rather than his agenda during a visit to Kiambu.
“Ruto was in Kiambu where he made me the subject instead of worshipping. He was talking about me and my home area, saying there are no roads,” he said.
“He said I have been in governance and leadership for 50 years. I will correct him, it’s 40 years.”
The former vice president emphasised that his decades in public service included major infrastructure initiatives in Kitui and the broader region.
“The 40 years were of serious experience. When I was vice president, I launched the construction and got a Chinese contractor, Sinohydro, to build the road,” Kalonzo explained.
“The road runs from Kibwezi to Mutomo, to Kitui, to Mwingi, to Tseikuru to Maua. That road links Ethiopia with Mombasa.”
He was responding to remarks by Ruto on Sunday, who accused Kalonzo of being a naysayer and leading the campaign against his agenda to transform the country.
Ruto hit out at Kalonzo, claiming that the opposition leader had no authority to lecture him on matters of development, saying the road leading to his home is yet to be tarmacked despite his long tenure in politics.
“There are those saying we can’t achieve all that I have announced. I want to tell them that they are the ones who can’t achieve anything. They have no plan. It would be unreasonable to wait for someone who has never developed his rural road,” the President said.
“The road leading to his home is dusty and muddy, and he has been in power for decades. If he can’t develop his rural road, where will he get the smartness to plan development for Kenya? That is why they argue it is impossible, because they have never planned anything.”
Ruto was defending his road construction agenda, reiterating that his administration plans to build 28,000 kilometres of roads by 2032.
He insisted the plan is realistic and necessary to unlock economic growth across the country.
“Just as we constructed 10,000km of roads during (former President) Uhuru Kenyatta’s 10-year-tenure, we are going to construct another 28,000kms by 2032,” Ruto said.
I am trying to understand what Kalonzo Musyoka is trying to do by protesting that President Ruto has accused him of not even building a road to his him in all his years in government. At least Kenyans now know from Kalonzo himself that he has been in government for 40 years and now at the age of 71 years on the planet he wants to be the president of our country.
We also know that it took Kalonzo all those 40 years in government including being Kibaki’s Vice President after his kati kati moves to join Kibaki when the man was slaughtering thousands of Kenyans every day during the 2007/8 post-election violence for Kalonzo to have a mud road going to his home.
After 40 years of doing nothing which means he has been a career politician all his life and never had a job ever from the time he left college, now if he loses in 2027 which he knows is a guarantee for him he will be 80 years old in 2032 and can run again and lose.
Hopefully Kalonzo retires from politics in 2037 at 85 years old and then he can look for a real job for the first time in his life. The fact that this is the kind of a guy who wants to be our president in two years is almost an insult to Kenyans. Go get a job somewhere Steve, please, and let Kenyans find real practical people to take leadership of the country as needed.
Ruto has put the entire opposition into a doom and gloom mode, and it seems they are just giving up now. On the road construction issue where Kalonzo was already fighting a losing battle, William Ruto just reminded him that the road he was claiming to have worked on as Kibaki’s VP was actually built by President Uhuru and Ruto as his DP starting in 2013.
Ruto dismisses Kalonzo’s claim over Kibwezi-Tseikuru-Maua road project
December 16, 2025
While in Turkana, President William Ruto dismissed claims by Kalonzo Musyoka that he launched the construction of the Kibwezi–Maua road, insisting the project was carried out during the Jubilee administration after 2013.
Speaking on Tuesday, December 16, 2025, in Tobong’u Lore, Lodwar, Turkana County, Ruto said the road was built after he and former President Uhuru Kenyatta assumed office following the 2013 General Election. He said the government has records to show when and under whose leadership the project was implemented.
Ruto accused Kalonzo of misleading Kenyans by taking credit for a project he did not complete. He said the facts are clear and available, adding that Kenyans are informed and cannot be deceived about major public works.
“He is claiming that he launched the road from Kibwezi to Mbondoni. I want to tell him to look for fools; there are no fools in Kenya anymore,” Ruto said. “That road was not built by him. It was built by Uhuru and me when we took over government, and we have the facts.”
“He says it is not 50 years but 40 years. Are 40 years just two days?” Ruto asked. “In 40 years, how many years do you need to plan a road to your own home?”
I think when Kenyans see the political trend in the country right now the words of Prof. Peter Kagwanja makes a lot of sense and United Opposition is dead and buried.
Kagwanja lists reasons why Ruto could easily be re-elected
December 16, 2025
According to media reports, Professor Peter Kagwanja has explained why it might be easier for President William Ruto to be reelected in 2027.
During an interview on a local radio station on Tuesday, December 16, 2025, Kagwanja described President Ruto as a highly persuasive and strategic politician capable of navigating complex challenges.
He highlighted that the President’s ongoing infrastructure projects, including the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) from Naivasha through Kisumu to Malaba and roads connecting Rironi, Mau Summit, Eldoret, Malaba, and the Nithi Bridge, will provide tangible achievements that can appeal to voters
“I can see him being re-elected, yeah, on the basis of some of the deals he has already cringed. Yeah, that’s what he needs to tell Kenyans, yeah, that he is in a position now with no contradiction and no fear to bring the railway from Naivasha to Malaba. Yeah. How many presidents have done that in their country? He will definitely, by the time he leaves office, build the road from Rironi Mau Summit.”
Kagwanja also noted the road from Muthaiga toward Dumberi and potential motorway projects from Nairobi to Thika as part of the administration’s visible accomplishments.
He emphasized that these projects are being executed through investments rather than loans, citing commitments from international partners, including Chinese investors under the Beijing Plan of Action.
Kagwanja argued that by the time the 2027 elections arrive, the completion or near-completion of these projects will give President Ruto a strong record to present to the electorate, making his reelection campaign easier.
In complete desperation, Kalonzo Musyoka and the United Opposition now want the William Ruto government to be implicated in the gruesome death of Cyrus Jirongo from a road accident a few days ago. Nothing is working for these people. Nada.
Now the opposition is like a starving person looking for food in a garbage can. If they find someone’s poo in there, they may mistake it for a hot dish of Chicken Tikka Masala, and it is gone. Good Lord.
Things are that bad for Kalonzo and his buddy Rigathi Gachagua.
Kalonzo calls for transparent probe into late Cyrus Jirongo’s death
December 16, 2025
Former Vice President Kalonzo Musyoka has urged for a transparent investigation into the death of former Lugari MP Cyrus Jirongo.
Rigathi Gachagua is already talking about Cyrus Jirongo death as the new case of Josiah Mwangi Kariuki. JM must be turning in his grave to hear something like that because he did not die in a road accident.
“Kenyans are asking, who were the last people to be seen with Cyrus Jirongo? Why are they quiet? People he knew, people he trusted. Why are they quiet?” Gachagua asked.
“We haven’t heard them give a good account. Speaker Wetang’ula should have given a very good account. What was his plans, where he was going, what was happening. Other people who were with him should come and give clarity.”
He compared Jirongo’s death to that of J.M. Kariuki, the late politician whose murder in March 1975 is widely considered a political assassination, though the case remains officially unsolved.
All of a sudden, the entire agenda for the United Opposition has now become Cyrus Jirongo, their new Josiah Mwangi Kariuki. What is coming next? Political stupidity needs to have limits even for people like Rigathi Gachagua and Kalonzo Musyoka. It will help them breathe normally at least for one day. William Ruto has turned these folks into complete zombies. It is sad to see them running around like headless chickens.
Instead of letting the Jirongo family mourn their loved one in peace the opposition leaders have decided to bring their dirty political drums into the show which could lead to a situation of complete chaos and violence during the burial of Cyrus Jirongo as politicians fight but the likes of Gachagua and Kalonzo don’t give a shit about that if at all it could help their flopping opposition politics.
