A video shared by Azimio TV of President William Ruto predicting that there would be no money in his government went viral on Monday, April 10.
Azimio claimed that Ruto had foreseen the financial crunch in the country when he was President Uhuru Kenyatta's deputy.
In the clip, the President stated that "there would be no corruption in his government because there would be no money to steal."
However, Kenyans.co.ke established that the clip was cut from an interview conducted on January 23, 2020, and left out the full context of the conversation.
"If I get an opportunity to run the government, there would be no corruption because there would be no money to steal because every coin will be used and there would be none for anybody to steal," the then DP stated.
During the interview, Ruto made it clear that corruption should not be an excuse for any government not to deliver.
He argued that despite the prevalence of graft under the government of the time, it did not hinder them from delivering on big projects like the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR).
However, three years down the line, the Kenya Kwanza government has many a time blamed the previous regime for failure to meet a number of their mandates.
On April 9, DP Rigathi Gachagua admitted that there was a crisis at the National Treasury over the loans taken during the past regime.
Gachagua, who claimed that some of the loans were meant to benefit a few individuals, now used it as an explanation for the delay in payment of salaries for civil servants.
In a second video, Trade Cabinet Secretary (CS) Moses Kuria in 2020, declared that the Parliament lied to Kenyans that the country was doing well economically.
Kuria publicly acknowledged his contribution to the dip in Kenya's financial turmoil adding that the then-executive should have apologised to the public.
"We failed in our oversight responsibility. We are in this hole because, as Parliament, and the Budget Committee, we should have said no instead of saying yes," Kuria stated.
