{"id":15705,"date":"2024-07-12T08:13:48","date_gmt":"2024-07-12T08:13:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/?p=15705"},"modified":"2024-07-12T08:13:49","modified_gmt":"2024-07-12T08:13:49","slug":"busia-senator-okiya-omtatah-calls-for-president-rutos-ouster-amid-criticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/?p=15705","title":{"rendered":"Busia Senator Okiya Omtatah Calls for President Ruto\u2019s Ouster Amid Criticism."},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Busia Senator Okiya Omtatah has called for the removal of President William Ruto, accusing him of leading a failing government. Omtatah’s remarks follow escalating criticism of the administration’s handling of national issues, particularly economic management and public safety.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Senator dismissed the recent firing of Cabinet Secretaries as insufficient to address the country’s problems. “Firing Cabinet Secretaries is not enough,” Senator Omtatah asserted. “What needs to happen is that the entire Kenya Kwanza government led by President Ruto must vacate power. The call that Ruto must go is not an idle call, it is a call whose time has come.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Omtatah’s critique centers on the government’s perceived failure to fulfill its promises and maintain public trust. He pointed out that President Ruto’s claims about criminal activities on national TV have yet to be substantiated. “Ruto told us that criminals were in the streets, he has not produced any criminal. We cannot be told lies every day,” he stated emphatically.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Senator also accused the President of mismanaging the national budget, leading to broader systemic failures. “I am demanding that President Ruto vacate office as the only honorable thing to do because he is unable to balance a budget, it has collapsed, and everything around him is collapsing. He cannot say that his juniors should bear the burden. The buck stops with him,” Omtatah declared.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Highlighting the adage “the fish rots from the head,” Omtatah emphasized that leadership accountability starts at the top. He also criticized the President’s response to the recent deaths of protesters, calling for justice. “Justice is crying out, our children have died. Something that has never happened in this country. The President has called them criminals so the President cannot sit in power when the children have died,” Omtatah said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Omtatah’s call for President Ruto’s ouster is rooted not only in policy failures but also in a moral and ethical responsibility to the Kenyan people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Busia Senator Okiya Omtatah has called for the removal of President William Ruto, accusing him of leading a failing government. Omtatah’s remarks follow escalating criticism of the administration’s handling of national issues, particularly economic management and public safety. The Senator dismissed the recent firing of Cabinet Secretaries as insufficient to address the country’s problems. “Firing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":15706,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-relationships"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Okiya_Omtatah_2.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15705"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15707,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15705\/revisions\/15707"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}