Ruto: Next Election Will Come and Go, Kenya Must Think Beyond 2027

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Ruto said elections were temporary events that should not dictate the country’s development priorities, arguing that Kenya’s long-term plans had in the past been undermined by leaders focusing on the next election rather than the next generation.

“Kenya is bigger than any election. For far too long we have made elections to look like it is a matter of life and death. It is not,” Ruto said.

The President spoke as he called for a new national conversation on Kenya’s development beyond Vision 2030, saying the country needed to rethink its long-term ambitions in light of technological advances, climate change and the constitutional framework introduced in 2010.

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“Many are telling me, why don’t you concentrate on the next election, leave this thing, it can be done some other time. I’m telling them the next election will come and go. Kenya must think beyond the next election,” he said.

Ruto argued that the circumstances under which Vision 2030 was developed had significantly changed, citing the emergence of artificial intelligence, the growing effects of climate change and the adoption of the 2010 Constitution.

He said the new constitutional dispensation provided a stronger basis for Kenyans to participate in determining the country’s long-term development priorities.

According to Ruto, the next national development blueprint should not be a government or bureaucratic project but one shaped by citizens across the country.

“This is not a government project. This is a people’s project,” he said, urging farmers, entrepreneurs, students, technocrats, religious groups, civil society and the private sector to contribute ideas on the Kenya they want to see in the future.

He said no individual or institution had a monopoly on ideas and that the process should bring together different perspectives to develop a shared national vision.

📰 Source: Capital FM Kenya

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