The former Agriculture Cabinet Minister, Kipruto Arap Kirwa, has revealed how the Jubilee Party, led by retired President Uhuru Kenyatta, could move in as a strong opposition against the current regime.
Kirwa, who made his remarks on Monday, September 29, 2025, during an interview with a local media house, firmly stated that a stronger Jubilee could make a stronger opposition against President William Ruto’s regime.
On his part, the former minister argued that Jubilee is not Ruto’s project; instead, it is a partner.
“A stronger Jubilee is a stronger opposition against the current regime. Therefore, I don’t see any competition that is negative. Jubilee is not Ruto’s project, but a partner,” Kirwa said.
Kirwa further added that DCP and Jubilee parties are not in a competition but rather in a healthy exercise that has brought a number of Central leaders to the National Assembly.
“Even issues of competition between DCP and Jubilee are a very healthy exercise, and Jubilee is not in central Kenya alone today; there are more members of Parliament in Jubilee who come from Central Kenya,” Kirwa added.
Uhuru criticise gov’t
His remarks follow former and retired President Uhuru Kenyatta‘s remarks on Friday, September 26, 2025, where he issued a veiled criticism of the Social Health Authority (SHA) that succeeded the National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF).
Speaking during the Jubilee Party’s National Delegates Conference (NDC) at Ngong Racecourse along Ngong Road in Nairobi, the former Head of State took pride in his administration’s achievements, including the Linda Mama programme, which enabled expectant women to deliver in public hospitals free of charge.
At the time, Uhuru, without directly mentioning SHA, said Kenyans are being subjected to experimental schemes that are untested and untried.
“Today, Linda Mama has been abandoned and replaced by new, untried and untested schemes. While we wait for these experiments to succeed, Kenyans continue to suffer and our progress is slowed,” he said.
Uhuru warned that dwelling on rhetoric instead of delivering real progress often leads to repeating past mistakes.
“As we dwell on rhetoric rather than real progress, we repeat the mistakes of the past. The past can guide us, but it is the present that can shape the future,” he told the delegates.
He urged Jubilee Party members to reflect on their direction and the lessons learned.
“We need to ask ourselves: where are we, and where do we want to go? Some things have become apparent to me.
“You succeed by building on past successes, injecting new ideas, and improving upon them; and you fail by ignoring past mistakes, thereby falling into the trap of repeating them,” Uhuru stated.
