7/7/2025–|Last update: 00:04 (Mecca time)
Between the promises of campaigns and the inability to implement them, the fifth president of the state of Kenya, William Roto, faces a political future that may not guarantee that he will secure a second term, or even complete his first mortal that started nearly 3 years ago, in which the country witnessed events and tensions that were not intensified by hundreds of thousands of young people who were waiting for the development of the economy, creating jobs and lowering prices.
When Roto wanted to run in the presidential elections and go to the people in the 2022 elections, he raised the slogan of “the community of the toilers” and presented itself to the voters as carrying the concerns of the simple, and one of the religious people.
During his election campaign, he came to the streets, carried the pages of the Bible, eating food and walked in the markets.
And about the last three years he spent from his 5 -year -old first command, Roto was busy with sensitive problems with his government team, and worked on the heart of the table, as he wanted to remove his deputy, Gashhawa, and attract his opponent in the elections, Ridla Odina.
Youth protests
In the year 2024, Roto proposed tax measures, which he said was necessary to ensure the work of the government’s continuation, and to confront multiple economic crises, but youth and living forces, this considered this betrayal of electoral promises, went out to the streets and raised the slogan of resignation and leaving in the face of the newly -elected president.
The government dealt with the demonstrations strongly, until the repression resulted in the killing of 22 people, according to the National Human Rights Committee, most of them from the youth category who tried to storm the parliament headquarters and burn in the center of the capital.
Within an initiative to calm the situation, President Roto went out to the open, and addressed a speech to the nation on June 26, 2024, in which he announced that he would not sign the Finance Law approved by Parliament to increase taxes, as it turned out that the Kenyans did not want it.
In an effort to calm the situation and end the demonstrations, Roto said that he would open a dialogue with the youth who took the leadership of the protests throughout the capital, Nairobi.
Banking and corruption
In front of a batch of Harvard Business College, President Roto said that he will not lead a bankrupt state, and he talked about the efforts made by the government in raising the tax base to finance economic projects and overcome the burdens of public debt.
But the protesters say that they want to purify the government of corruption of stealing public resources and the lavish lifestyles experienced by politicians despite the poverty aspects of the general people.
The anger of the demonstrators is increasing due to what they see as ongoing deals concluded by Roto, including an agreement estimated at two billion dollars, which would give control of the main airport in Kenya to the Indian “Adani” group.
At the end of last year, Roto was forced to cancel this deal after it was revealed months after the authorities suppressed the anti -tax protests.
The 21 -year -old university student, Peter Cairo, said that he does not expect the government to deal with corruption and favoritism issues raised by the demonstrators unless the people decide to be represented by the values of the change they seek.
For many Kenyan youth, the economic reforms and deals that the government talks about are only attempts to justify embezzlement, and they often described the president with the descriptions of the “thief” and “thief”.
One mission logo
The first anniversary of the 2024 demonstrations coincided with the crisis of the murder of the professor and activist on social media in one of the police detention headquarters in the capital, Nairobi, after criticizing the deputy commander of the National Security Agency.
This incident ignited the streets of the capital again, where the demonstrators returned to the squares, but this time they raised the slogan “and and you refer to only one commission, indicating that the president should not run for the presidential elections in 2027.
For some other demonstrators, they raised the slogan of exit from power before the end of the first mission, saying that the president did not fulfill his obligations, and failed to improve the standard of living and the economy.
While the protesters believe that going out to the street is the best way to force the government to leave, Interior Minister Kishomba Morkumin vowed to confront the opposition demonstrators, stressing that they will be strongly suppressed.
Earlier last month, Roto said that he would not leave power, and will remain in his homeland, stressing that if it is not a Kenyan for him, it will not be for others.
Commenting on the protests, the president said that if this approach is continuing, the Kenyans will not have a homeland, because the country belongs to all, calling on all parties to calm and stability.
Team crisis
Since he arrived in power in 2022, Roto entered into a dispute with his government team, as he sought to isolate his deputy, Gashago, until he was isolated by Parliament in October 2024.
In a related context, Roto worked to include his opponent in the 2022 elections, Rila Odinga, who was supporting former President Ahuro Kenata.
In light of these intertwined contexts that separated the president and his allies, and gathered him with his traditional opponents, the political situation in the upcoming elections is not subject to readings and indicators that may give a clear evaluation on the political future of the current government, especially with the continued demonstrations adopted by the public street that had a great Druze in the arrival of President Roto to the rule of 2022.