Lawyer Willis Otieno has launched a scathing attack on the President William Ruto-led government.

Through a series of posts on X on Monday, December 8, 2025, Otieno posed five-pointed questions, wondering why the President continues to speak about national progress while citizens are struggling under economic strain.

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He said the country has reached a stage where accountability can no longer be avoided.

Otieno argued that the government has repeatedly failed to prioritise essential services, leaving ordinary Kenyans footing the bill for inefficiency and political comfort.

Five questions

In his post, Otieno posed a series of questions that targeted what he described as contradictions in governance.

“How do you justify a government that can’t fund hospitals, can’t employ doctors, can’t feed its own people, can’t complete basic projects, yet pays its MPs like they’re presiding over a superpower?” Otieno asked.

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He further challenged the salaries earned by legislators, adding, “Show me another third-world country where legislators earning Ksh739600 a month produce so little output that Parliament has effectively become a very expensive waiting lounge.”

He said the suffering of citizens cannot be dismissed, especially when the tax burden keeps rising.

“Ordinary citizens are being bled dry with punitive taxes just to maintain the lifestyles of people who behave like minor gods in a collapsing economy,” Willis Otieno added.

Otieno also likened the mismatch between government performance and public expenditure to a moral failure.

Willis Otieno criticises Ruto

His remarks gained traction quickly, with Kenyans reacting in frustration, agreement, and exhaustion at the state of public affairs.

Otieno did not end his critique there. He described the economic environment as a form of capture.

“It is a national hostage situation where the taxpayer is the permanent cash cow, milked to death so that political elites can live insulated from the very suffering they create.”

He argued that the country’s problem is not a lack of revenue but something deeper.

But Lawyer Willis Otieno’s remarks come amid the backdrop of endless promises by Ruto to make Kenya a first-world country.