Wiper Party leader Kalonzo Musyoka has showered Isiolo residents with praise for their Friday, February 7, 2025, incident where they booed President William Ruto and forced him to cut short his speech, calling it an extraordinary and commendable move.
Kalonzo was speaking after he commenced his coastal tour on Sunday, February 9, 2025, when he lashed out at the head of state, saying his fate was sealed because he has nowhere else to run or hide.
“And the example of Isiolo is truly remarkable. So there is no place to hide. Zakayo hawezi kujificha anywhere,” he noted.
Kalonzo was referencing the Friday incident where Ruto unknowingly stumbled upon a raucous crowd that wanted nothing to do with his words as they drowned him out with deafening “Ruto must go” chants.
The episode left the head of state visibly exasperated as he had not anticipated the crowd to receive him in such a hostile manner, and before he prematurely ended his speech due to the jeers, he retaliated by claiming that those heckling him were mere puppets of drug traffickers from the area.
“I hear these drug dealers have brought youth to heckle us here. Listen carefully, young people—you cannot intimidate the Kenyan government,” he noted.
The head of state had traveled to the northeastern county as part of his final lap of his four-day tour in the region and was on that particular occasion attending the groundbreaking ceremony of the County Aggregation and Industrial Park project.
He had been accompanied by a trove of other leaders from the region, including Governor Abdi Guyo and Senator Fatuma Dullo, who also suffered a similar jeering onslaught from the crowd.
The governor found himself at the receiving end of the heckling after he attempted to step in and pacify the agitated crowd, urging the locals to at least show the president a modicum of respect.
“Leo ni siku ya rais, wacha tupatie rais heshima. Tupatie rais heshima. Tuskize viongozi wote. Wale wamezoea kupanga, watu wapigie watu kelele, hamtarudi kupiga kelele Isiolo. Tunaelewana?” he said.
On the other hand, the senator was met with an even more scathing reaction from the crowd the moment she took the stage and began lashing out at the residents, accusing them of being sponsored by certain elected members of the Isiolo County government to disrupt the president’s speech.
Dullo was arguably the one who bore the brunt of the heckling the most, and at one point, the jeers escalated to an almost uncontrollable level, creating an atmosphere so charged that it seemed the situation could spiral into chaos as she pleaded with them not to escalate matters by hurling stones at her.
“Let us not throw stones,” she said.
ID Vetting
Kalonzo, who also officially launched a Wiper Party office in the Kwa Ndome area of Kilifi, then circled back to taking further jabs at William Ruto, saying his plan to abolish the ID vetting process was a clandestine ploy to rig the 2027 general elections.
He called him out without sugarcoating his words, stating that what Ruto was attempting to do was a desperate attempt to fortify his political stronghold and craft new alliances as a buffer against the opposition, which remains resolute in its mission to unseat the Kenya Kwanza regime.
“Huyo jamaa amepatwa na tumbo joto. Unajua wanafikiria wanaweza kuandikisha kura hapa na pale kuwapatia watu ID. I want to assure you, hao wamepatiwa ndio watamfukuza kwanza. They will be the first ones kwa sababu kila mtu anaumia kama ule mwingine,” Kalonzo told the crowd, insinuating that those who Ruto was hoping would bolster his numbers would ironically be the very people who would turn against him in the end.
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