Kisii County Senator Richard Onyonka has revealed that former Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang’i will work with Martha Karua, Kalonzo Musyoka, and Rigathi Gachagua in the 2027 elections.

The senator was speaking during the launch of Martha Karua‘s People’s Liberation Party on Thursday, February 27, 2027. The legislator said although Matiang’i would like to run, he is ready to support any of the opposition figures who will be picked as the flagbearer.

“Honourable Fred Matiang’i is finishing his work in the next month, and he will be here to join you. He wishes all of you the best; he hopes you will give him the chance to serve as the president.

“But if he does not become the president, he is willing to work with you and support whoever this group picks as the presidential candidate,” Onyonka said.

Onyonka also criticized President William Ruto‘s government and its policies, which he says are not working for the country.

“We have a country where now our budget is four trillion, parliament serves the executive, and 90 per cent of MPs and senators have been bought. In that process, you have this four trillion budget, which is supposed to give our people health services; it is dead.

“You have the education system on its knees. Why? Because the university funding does not get to the people who are vulnerable. You have a government that is actually doing something called affordable housing, but in the universities, our students leave in the slums,” he said.

Ruto’s policies criticised

He also said the Affordable Housing programme has turned into a corruption scheme.

“Instead of the government building where these kids stay because they pay, the government is building a place where the president and his friends are sharing the loot by supplying the cement; they take public land, and they supply chuma and kokotos and mchanga.

“They were saying they are building 200,000 houses, but the auditor general says we have only done 5,000. The rest we do not know where they are.

“We have a country where you do not know who owns the Port of Mombasa or Lamu Port,” he said.