Junet Mohamed Claims Uhuru Predicted Ruto Will Not Survive for 3 Months: "Nilianza Kuhesabu Masiku"
- Junet Mohamed claimed former president Uhuru Kenyatta predicted Ruto’s government would collapse within months due to the country’s dire economic state
- Junet said he initially believed the prediction and counted down the days, expecting Azimio to take over leadership, but nothing happened
- He later credited the 2024 working arrangement between Ruto and Raila, and the government’s economic policies, with averting collapse
- Junet acknowledged that despite heavy debt and a risk of default, Ruto’s administration stabilised the shilling, serviced debts, and slowed the exchange rate’s rise
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Didacus Malowa, a journalist at TUKO.co.ke, brings over three years of experience covering politics and current affairs in Kenya.
Suna East MP Junet Mohamed has claimed that former president Uhuru Kenyatta predicted President William Ruto’s government would collapse within months after taking office.
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Speaking on Thursday, August 14, during Ruto’s meeting with grassroots leaders from Migori county at Sony Sugar Green Stadium in Awendo, Junet recounted remarks allegedly made by Uhuru during an Azimio parliamentary group meeting shortly after the 2022 elections.
The legislator said the meeting took place at Masai Lodge and was attended by Azimio leader Raila Odinga and Uhuru, then serving as the coalition’s chairman.
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According to Junet, Uhuru told those present that the country’s economic state was so dire that Ruto’s administration would be forced to give up within three months.
"We as Azimio people had a parliamentary group meeting in a place called Masai Lodge. In that meeting, my party leader came, Baba Raila Amolo Odinga, and the chairman of Azimio, who was former president Uhuru Kenyatta. And the former president spoke there and said about how the country’s economic situation was, that he had given this government three months,' Junet said.
Did Junet wait for Ruto's downfall?
He narrated that he initially believed Uhuru’s prediction, even starting to count the days for the Kenya Kwanza administration to collapse.
Junet stated that to him at the time, Ruto's government's collapse would give Azimio the chance to take over the country's leadership.
He stated that after a long wait, he found respite in the working agreement between Ruto and Raila in 2024.
"I said to myself, so our seat can return after three months, and I started clapping. He said three months, for economic matters, these people will raise their hands up. I started counting the days. First month, nothing, second month, nothing, third month, nothing. Fourth month, nothing, until God brought broad-based. I then said to myself, so this is what God was planning," he added, in reference to Ruto’s economic turnaround efforts," he stated.
How did Ruto revive Kenya's economy?
Junet said that despite being in opposition at the time, he recognised the severe economic challenges the country was facing when Ruto assumed power.
"Kenya was in a debt trap. Kenya was, you know, we were saying at that time, even those who were completely opposing you, we were saying these people will default. It’s not if, it is when. They must default; they cannot pay the debt," he recalled.
The MP praised the administration for stabilising the economy, claiming debts have been serviced and the shilling has avoided the predicted collapse.
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He said difficult policy choices had turned around the situation, contrasting it with the period when the exchange rate was climbing rapidly.
Why did Mbadi warn Raila?
Elsewhere, Treasury CS John Mbadi raised a cautionary flag to Raila, warning against placing trust in Uhuru Kenyatta.
Mbadi suggested Uhuru's recent opposition to working with Ruto is ill-timed and insincere.
He argued that if the former president truly supported Raila, he would have helped him in 2022, emphasising that abandoning that critical moment, Uhuru lacks credibility now.
Source: TUKO.co.ke
