The Linda Mwananchi faction has issued a scathing rebuke of President William Ruto following a sequence of public outbursts in Western Kenya.
Throughout a press convention on Wednesday, March 18, 2026, the group accused the president of breaching the constitutional dignity of his workplace. They particularly pointed to a “culture of insults” that they declare has characterised current exchanges between the president and his former deputy, Rigathi Gachagua.
Babu Owino led the condemnation, questioning whether or not the nation’s prime workplace has been lowered to intimidation and verbal violence.
“What example are they trying to show those who are coming after them? Must leadership just be full of gunism, violence, and insults? As young leaders, we want to condemn the conduct and behaviour of the leaders, especially at the president’s level. We don’t expect the president of the Republic of Kenya to behave in a way that he behaved yesterday,” he stated.
“The moment you get annoyed as a president, what decisions will you make? And those decisions, your guess is as good as mine, can lead to chaos, and therefore you must conduct yourself in a manner that is protecting the image of that office, because it is no longer you as an individual, but it is the office that you hold.”
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Senator Godfrey Osotsi warned that President Ruto’s current public conduct may present authorized grounds for his removing from workplace.
Talking alongside Babu Owino on Wednesday, March 18, 2026, Osotsi reminded the president that his oath of workplace requires him to be a logo of nationwide unity – an ordinary he claims has been violated by current “insulting” rhetoric used throughout excursions in Western Kenya.
“I want to remind President William Ruto that he took the oath to uphold the Constitution of Kenya, and some of the utterances that he has made for the past few days do not portray a leader who is supposed to be the president of Kenya. In fact, I want to remind President William Ruto that his utterances actually border on misconduct, which is a ground for impeachment of the president of Kenya,” he stated.
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“We want a president that will unite this country, a president that respects the Constitution, and a president that respects alternative opinions so that we can have a strong country.”
Siaya Governor James Orengo additionally declared that President William Ruto is “unfit for office” and must be eliminated instantly relatively than ready for the 2027 normal election. The senior counsel argued that the president’s “incendiary” remarks – which he labeled as hate speech and incitement – violate the very Structure he swore to guard.
Orengo identified that whereas different leaders like Gachagua by no means took a constitutional oath, the president carries a sworn responsibility to guard and defend the legislation. He referred to as on Kenyans to make use of each authorized device obtainable to problem what he described as a “rogue presidency,” insisting that they have to act immediately.
“The message is that we have a president who is unfit to be in office, not in 2027, but unfit to be in office now. And if the Constitution provides means for his removal, the job should be done now, not in 2027. This is a call to action for all Kenyans to do everything possible to ensure that we don’t have a rogue president and that we don’t have a bandit government,” he stated.
“The law also says, if you are attacked in your house, you defend yourself before you go to see policemen. So this time, we are warning Kenyans that the time to deal with that rogue presidency is not 2027; it is actually now.”
