The Wiper Patriotic Front has responded to the latest attack by President William Ruto on its leader, Kalonzo Musyoka, on infrastructure development.

Speaking during the handover of the Affordable Housing units in Mukuru Kwa Njenga estate on Thursday, December 18, 2025, Ruto revived his attack on the former vice president for lacking vision for the country, linking him to the poor state of the roads and infrastructure in his Kitui village despite serving in different state positions for decades.

Ruto insinuated that if the United Opposition chief could not develop his own town, he cannot take Kenya to the next level amid the renewed Singapore dream, where the government is working around the clock to drag the country from third-world to first-world class through infrastructural development.

Ruto’s salvo

”Akajaribu kujitetea. Akasema Ruto amesema mimi nimekuwa uongozi miaka 50 lakini si hivyo nimekuwa miaka 40. Wacha naomba msamaha pengine sio 50 ni 40 na hiyo 40 years barabara bado ni vumbi, unahitaji miaka ngapi ndio utengeneza barabara ya kuenda kwako? Bado nangojea majibu, hajanijibu. Barabara ya kuenda kwako umeshindwa, ya kuenda Ethiopia ndio utapanga?” Ruto posed.

In response to Ruto’s sentiments, Wiper Party, through its Secretary General Shakila Abdalla, fired back at Ruto, accusing his administration of deception, corruption, institutional capture and the deliberate sabotage of development projects, as political temperatures rise ahead of the 2027 General Election.

In a statement issued on Friday, December 19, 2025, Wiper dismissed President Ruto’s recent remarks targeting the former vice president, terming them “desperate propaganda” by a regime that has lost public confidence.

The party insisted that development is a constitutional right for all Kenyans and not a political favour to be exchanged for loyalty. It accused the president of promoting a culture where infrastructure projects are used as bargaining tools, rather than instruments of equitable national progress.

Wiper’s response

”Ruto operates from a diseased political philosophy: that development is a personal favour dispensed in exchange for political loyalty. That roads are bribes. That hospitals are bargaining chips. This is not leadership. It is corruption of the highest order,” the statement said in part.

Wiper defended Kalonzo Musyoka’s record in government, highlighting his role during the Kibaki administration as vice president and a key architect of Vision 2030. The party noted that Kalonzo exited office in 2013 without corruption scandals, unexplained wealth, or allegations of abuse of office.

According to the statement, Kalonzo represents principled leadership rooted in constitutionalism, national cohesion and integrity, in contrast to what it described as President Ruto’s “politics of deceit, re-launches and ghost projects.”

”H.E. Kalonzo Musyoka represents the opposite. As Vice President and Minister, he championed Vision 2030, Kenya’s most ambitious development blueprint and working alongside President Mwai Kibaki and Rt. Hon. Raila Odinga, they delivered infrastructure, economic reforms, and social development for ALL Kenyans,” it said.

”Kalonzo Musyoka left office in August 2013, without corruption scandals, without unexplained wealth, without the moral stains that follow Ruto everywhere. While Ruto faced international tribunals and launched ghost projects, Kalonzo defended constitutional order, national cohesion, and the dignity of public office,” the statement added.

Kibwezi–Mutomo–Kitui–Bondoni Road dispute

At the centre of the dispute is the Kibwezi–Mutomo–Kitui–Bondoni road project, which Wiper says was initiated and secured under Kalonzo Musyoka’s leadership through funding from China’s EXIM Bank.

The party accused Ruto, then a senior figure in the Jubilee administration, of orchestrating the project’s sabotage by branding it economically unviable in 2013, only to later revive it for political mileage. Wiper described the repeated re-launches as “political theatre designed for cameras and votes.”