KENYA IS BLEEDING: DR. KINITY LAMBASTS RUTO OVER TRILLION-SHILLING CORRUPTION AND NDABIBI EVICTIONS
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Kenya is losing more than KSh 2 billion to corruption every day, nearly one trillion shillings annually, and the situation is likely worse under the current administration.
This is the warning from Dr. Isaac Newton Kinity, counselor, human rights activist, and chairman of the Kikimo Foundation for Corruption and Poverty Eradication, who says the country is on the brink of collapse, with almost KSh 5 trillion lost in a single five-year term.
“It is not simply theft,” Dr. Kinity told Nakuru Times. “It is the deliberate sabotage of an entire nation’s future. We are mortgaging the future of our children so that a few individuals can live in obscene wealth today while millions of Kenyans starve.”
He recalled that former President Uhuru Kenyatta admitted Kenya loses KSh 2 billion daily to corruption but said little was done to address the crisis, warning that the figures have likely doubled or tripled under President William Ruto.
Dr. Kinity stressed that much of the stolen money comes from loans which Kenyans are forced to repay with interest despite never benefiting from them.
“Do Kenyans truly visualize what one trillion shillings means?” he asked. “This amount could fund universal healthcare, employ thousands of teachers, build hospitals in every county, double the salaries of public servants including KDF soldiers, and create factories to employ millions of jobless youth. Instead, it is stolen every year.”
Dr. Kinity sharply criticized President Ruto over the Ndabibi land dispute in Naivasha, where over 140,000 elderly men and women, some in their nineties, were evicted from a 5,000-acre farm they have occupied all their lives.
“The reports that President William Ruto and Mr. Gicheru have claimed ownership of this farm and had these old men and women arrested and charged with trespass are shocking,” he said.
“These citizens are too old to work anywhere else. They depended entirely on this land for survival. To evict them at this stage of life is not governance. It is cruelty.”
He demanded that the president return the land to its rightful owners, withdraw the charges, and release all those arrested.
“If he fails to do so, I will explain the entire episode to President Donald Trump, whose compassion I have witnessed and who I am certain will understand the plight of these elderly Kenyans,” Dr. Kinity said.
He praised former U.S. President Trump for cutting aid to countries plagued by corruption, including Kenya, arguing that American taxpayers should not have to finance stolen money.
“Those who protest against President Trump’s decisions to cut aid to corrupt nations may not understand what happens to the money once it arrives here,” he said. “If they knew it is stolen before reaching the poor, they would never object.”
Dr. Kinity concluded with a passionate call for action. “Corruption on this scale is not normal and must never be accepted as the cost of politics,” he said.
“Kenya is standing at the edge of a precipice. If we do not recover stolen resources, restore the land to its rightful owners, and end this culture of impunity, we will collapse as a nation.”
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