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Constitutionalism or Development? The Argument Sifuna and Ruto Are Having Over 2027


Beneath the dispute over a market in Kitale is a sharper disagreement about what the next election should be about. According to the story, President William Ruto criticised Nairobi Senator Edwin Sifuna's position that restoring constitutionalism and the rule of law should be a central political objective. Ruto argued that constitutionalism alone is not enough without a clear development agenda, and said Kenya's democratic system lets citizens weigh competing plans and tell good policies from bad ones.


Sifuna answered in Trans Nzoia on Friday, October 16. He said he would keep challenging the President until he respects constitutionalism and the rule of law, and accused him of growing agitated by opposition figures. "Let nobody lie to you that there is any part of the country that will vote for William Ruto," he said, claiming the President has lost the support of most Kenyans.


The two men are therefore pitching different tests to voters. Ruto's is delivery and a plan. Sifuna's is whether the President respects the constitution, and his argument that Ruto is claiming credit for work he did not do is his way of turning Ruto's own test against him.


The story does not say where Ruto made his remarks or when, and it quotes nothing from Ruto's side in reply to Sifuna's latest comments.

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