Willis Evans Otieno
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Official Account of the Deputy President Designate, @SafinaPartyKe. Socio-economic rights community empowerment. Running-mate to @Jimiwanjigi. #WaWillis🇰🇪
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Some leaders spend years in opposition behaving like intellectual revolutionaries, passionately diagnosing every national problem, attacking government incompetence, and presenting themselves as the enlightened alternative destined to rescue the country. Suddenly, the same people who once mastered the language of criticism became experts in excuses
Willis Evans Otieno25,649 views • 20 days ago
This move was not just a political maneuver but a clear indication of Ruto’s determination to curtail Raila’s influence beyond Kenya’s borders. Actively working to have Raila removed from an international role underscores the lingering political rivalry between them, despite their public gestures of reconciliation. It also raises broader questions about Kenya’s diplomatic positioning within the AU , whether this decision was purely driven by local political calculations or if Ruto was aligning with other regional interests. Ultimately, this act signals that Ruto perceives Raila not just as a domestic competitor but as a figure whose influence needed to be neutralized at a continental level.
Willis Evans Otieno162,333 views • 1 year ago
You don't measure the performance of an economy based on consumption of Ugali.
Willis Evans Otieno183,040 views • 1 year ago
Anything Kaongo lays his hands on descends into ruin. His grasp of international relations is abysmal, his foreign policy a masterclass in diplomatic ineptitude. He is a geopolitical liability , an alchemist of failure, turning every opportunity into catastrophe with the precision of a wrecking ball.
Willis Evans Otieno135,182 views • 1 year ago
The MPs who voted yes on the Finance Bill betrayed Kenyans for their own selfish interests. Do not give these MPs platforms to address people, as their actions have shown they prioritize personal gain over the welfare of the nation. #RutoMustgo #OccupyCBDTuesday
Willis Evans Otieno172,560 views • 1 year ago
Edwin Sifuna and the Linda Wananchi wing leaders are doing well but if they want to be taken seriously, they must articulate what comes after removal politics. What is the economic blueprint? What is the fiscal plan? How do they deal with debt, unemployment, taxation, healthcare, and the cost of living?
Willis Evans Otieno26,634 views • 3 months ago
Ruto orchestrated a calculated campaign within the African Union to diminish Raila Odinga’s diplomatic stature, actively lobbying against his continued tenure. In a decisive maneuver, he formally petitioned the AU to rescind Raila’s appointment as the High Representative for Infrastructure, a role he had occupied since 2018.
Willis Evans Otieno75,829 views • 1 year ago
This is economic extortion ; an elaborate con where the government drowns the country in debt, not out of necessity, but as a calculated pretext to justify relentless taxation. They manufacture a fiscal crisis, then turn around and squeeze every last cent from hardworking citizens under the guise of "revenue generation." It’s a vicious cycle where the burden of incompetence and looting is offloaded onto the very people struggling to survive. Instead of curbing wastage, sealing corruption loopholes, or negotiating better debt terms, they take the easy route ; bleeding the taxpayers dry.
Willis Evans Otieno70,609 views • 1 year ago
The ODM - UDA merger is not about the people but about individual positions, that's why you seem them everyday talking about what they will get, not what the people will get. Victory is about the people not about positions, getting power when people are dying in hospitals because of poor Healthcare daily is not victory.
Willis Evans Otieno22,529 views • 3 months ago
Former DIG Eliud Lagat was once the GSU Commandant. Yet it is GSU officers who stormed Standard Media Group, harassing printing staff over a headline exposing Lagat’s role in Albert Ojwang’s death. That's command loyalty weaponised to suppress truth. The very unit he led is now being used to intimidate the press in his defence. This is textbook abuse of power, and it reeks of impunity.
Willis Evans Otieno54,006 views • 11 months ago
Disastrously mismanaged diplomacy. One of William Ruto’s earliest acts as president was an ill-advised pronouncement on Western Saharawi, a matter fraught with geopolitical sensitivities. Barely had the dust settled before he was in Italy, unabashedly denouncing Russia over the Ukraine conflict ,an issue demanding careful calibration. Before long, he surfaced in Geneva, opining on the Israel-Palestine crisis, heedless of the African Union’s established positions on these contentious matters. The question then arises: why was he so eager to articulate stances that deviated from, if not outright undermined, the AU’s collective interests?
Willis Evans Otieno67,402 views • 1 year ago
When President Kibaki rolled out Free Primary Education (FPE), many Kenyans framed it purely as a social welfare programme. What was missed deliberately or otherwise was its powerful economic logic. FPE was a direct fiscal stimulus. By removing school fees, the State freed household income at the lowest and widest level of society. Millions of families suddenly had cash they would otherwise have paid to schools. That money did not disappear , it circulated: In food markets In transport In clothing and small trade In local services That is how an economy grows: by expanding consumption at the base, not by strangling it. FPE also stabilised households. Children stayed in school, parents planned better, productivity improved, and informal businesses gained predictable demand. The multiplier effect was real, even if it was never packaged in economic jargon. Contrast that with today’s approach: Raising taxes, levies and charges shrinks disposable income, suppresses demand, kills small businesses, and then government wonders why revenues underperform. You do not build an economy by taxing people into exhaustion. You build it by putting money in their hands and letting it move.
Willis Evans Otieno28,621 views • 5 months ago