Amisi: Presidents who fail to implement manifestos should be impeached
By Mabonga Makhanu, March 22, 2026Saboti Member of Parliament Caleb Amisi has suggested that future presidents who fail to deliver on the promises of their manifestos within two years should face impeachment.
In a post shared on his Facebook page on Sunday, March 22, 2026, according to the Saboti MP, with one-term rhetoric gaining momentum against President William Ruto, the next step should be moving a referendum to ensure that anyone who occupies the office of president and does not deliver on their manifesto promises can be impeached.
He took a swipe at Ruto’s 2022 promises, where he pledged to elevate Kenyans from the bottom up, saying that failure to fulfil such commitments should have been an impeachable offence.
He further added that, with the current Parliament, which, according to him, has no power to impeach a president, there must be at least one president who faces impeachment to serve as a lesson for future officeholders.
“A president needs to be impeached in this country as a lesson when we are talking about one term. Once we achieve one term, the other lesson is to impeach a president as a lesson that you cannot just be elected and become rogue. If you get elected, you must. You must. In fact, one of the conditions of impeachment, if there will ever be a referendum, is that a president who has not fulfilled the promises in his manifesto, within two years, must be impeached,” Amisi stated.
“We have to say so that, when you say you are going to do this, you are going to leave people from bottom to top.” If, after two years, people are still at the bottom, you get impeached. This Parliament cannot impeach a president,” he added.
Willis Otieno’s remarks
Safina party secretary general on his side says that whoever will take over from President William Ruto in 2027, since he believes he is already a one-term president and does not solve the debt crisis that has grounded the Kenyan economy for the longest, risks being thrown out of office in the first 6 months.
“Whoever will become the leader of Kenya after William Ruto and does not solve the debt problem will become a must-go within 6 months; that is how critical 2027 will be,” Willis stated.