Ekuru Aukot, the leader of the Third Way Alliance, has challenged President William Ruto to name the individuals he has been warning in recent days, referring to them as "cartels."
President Ruto has remained unmoved by his vehement warning to cartels accused of stifling Kenya's sugar sector's growth, threatening those vying for control of the Mumias Sugar Company with a triple-threat prescription: withdraw the court cases or face jail, deportation, or a trip to heaven.
During a Thursday TV show, Aukot remarked that Ruto must now unmask the people behind the sugar crisis and tell Kenyans the truth.
"We've been talking about cartels for a long time, especially by a government with all the resources to expose these cartels." They are not spirits. "They are not an amorphous reality," he explained.
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"Cartels exist; this is not new to us; all we ask is that it be deconstructed, reduced to facts and issues." "Please unmask them for us."
He said President Ruto should be a man of action and stop the political conversations, which are always pointless because he is not new to leading a government.
Aukot further questioned why the president is only focused on the sugar sector when other industries are known to be dominated by cartels requiring attention.
"We have to be sceptical about what the government wants to do," he said. "We have to be sceptical when the president chooses to speak about Mumias but refuses to speak about the cartels in his own county of Uasin Gishu."
"This is a man who, when he presented himself as having a plan of action for this country, there was every reason to believe that he actually knows where the problem in this country is." he added.
