Following huge protests in Kenya which led to the death of my than 21 youth at the hands of Kenya’s brutal police, the president has succumbed to the blood sacrificed by the people after they broke into the parliament and attempted to burn it down.
It is indeed a U-Turn for a president who had earlier called the protestors lawless people he is going to deal with using any means necessary, Ruto turned around to call the protestors the good people of Kenya as well as austerity measures on the presidency and cabinet to reduce expenditure by the wasteful ruling class of the country, whether this a mere appeasement gesture, what can be seen is that the people’s pressure has gotten the results.
Ruto is under extreme pressure from then IMF and World bank to pay back their loans, yet the country faces economic hardship due to his poor policies. Most of the countries on the continent which have thrown in their fate with the neocolonial institutions are facing huge austerity measures.
Ruto who recently made a celebratory entry into Washington at the invitation of the Biden Administration has lately become a neocolonial mouthpiece and darling after originally displaying fake Pan African rhetoric at the onset of his presidency. It was not to last and Ruto’s colours came out as a true neocolonial agent. Ruto’s government has further done the unthinkable by sending military troops to Haiti where neocolonial united states of America, Canada and France have destabilized the country for centuries.
Knowing that the Haitian people know their enemy, the neocolonialists could not send their hated troops into Haiti therefore they deployed an errand boy Ruto.
There is need for a concerted effort in Unifying the African continent to rid it of these confusing puppets out of the continent and that work should be taken seriously by the Pan-Africanists.
Kenya’s example has demonstrated that the African People can not only be mobilised to resist neocolonial parasitic and exploitative schemes but also to unify the continent. Leesons therefore need to be learnt from these victories and implemented on the greater part of the African continent to overthrow neocolonialism and its agents on the continent.
