President William Ruto wants Kenyans to believe that the outcome of the 2027 election will be determined by who prays harder. Coming from a government facing growing public discontent over the economy, corruption, justice, and governance, that claim raises far more questions than it answers. It also forces us to revisit the increasingly expensive National Prayer Breakfast and what it has come to represent.
President William Ruto now says he's confident the blood-based regime will win the 2027 General Election because the opposition doesn't understand the power of prayer.
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Speaking after the Ol Kalou smackdown, Ruto reportedly reassured his panicking camp that all is well and that UDA would retain Parliament and State House in 2027 because they're simply praying harder than we, the opposition, are.
That statement immediately brought one event back to mind. The 2025 National Prayer Breakfast cost taxpayers KSh 26 million. The 2026 National Prayer Breakfast is reported to cost taxpayers KSh 57 million. In just one year, the cost of the event more than doubled.
That might not matter if it were simply a privately funded gathering of believers. But it isn't. It is a taxpayer-funded event held at a time when millions of Kenyans are struggling with the high cost of living, businesses are closing, hospitals remain underfunded, young people are unemployed, and citizens are constantly being told there isn't enough money for essential public services.
The National Prayer Breakfast is supposed to be a moment of national reflection and prayer. Instead, it increasingly feels like a gathering of politicians enjoying your taxes for one hour in the name of praying for you, while simultaneously turning faith into a political campaign strategy.
There's a lot to unpack here.
First off, the arrogance in the idea that God is personally invested in helping William Ruto's regime win the 2027 elections is just off the charts.
Throughout history, politicians have often wrapped themselves in religion whenever they run out of answers. They invoke God to project moral authority, rally supporters, or imply that political opposition is somehow opposition to divine will.
But that's not how faith works.
Prayer is not a campaign strategy. God is not a political consultant. Elections are not won because one side prays louder, longer, or more publicly than the other. To suggest otherwise is to reduce faith to a political tool and imply that God has taken sides in Kenya's electoral contest.
That isn't humility. It's breathtaking arrogance.
Secondly, it's shocking to think that William Ruto and the blood-based regime believe they are worthy of such divine favor when they've spent the last three years protecting corrupt politicians, passing punitive taxation, looting money meant for hospitals, and unleashing goons and masked rogue police officers to attack churches, terrorize peaceful protestors, and murder Kenyans.
You cannot spend years presiding over policies that have left millions of Kenyans poorer, defend politicians accused of corruption, and watch public institutions lose credibility, then suddenly expect citizens to believe that your greatest political asset is prayer.
Faith without justice is hypocrisy.
You cannot ask God to bless a government while ordinary Kenyans are asking where their taxes went, why hospitals lack medicine, why businesses are collapsing, why young people cannot find jobs, why police brutality continues, and why accountability remains so elusive.
Thirdly, it just goes to show that the ruling regime has no plan, no strategy, and nothing meaningful to offer Kenyans except empty prayers and lies after running this country into the ground and pissing all over the ideals enshrined in our Constitution, as well as in the Bible and the Quran.
Whenever governments stop talking about solutions, they start talking about symbolism.
Instead of explaining how they'll revive the economy, they organize prayer events and mockery empowerment drives.
Instead of outlining how they'll lower the cost of living, they ask for prayers.
Instead of taking responsibility for failed policies, they suggest divine intervention will somehow fix what their poor leadership has broken.
No amount of prayer can replace competent governance.
Prayer has its place. Governance has its responsibilities. The two should never be confused.
Even more disturbing is the growing trend of using religious platforms as political fighting stages. Houses of worship should be places where leaders are challenged to uphold justice, humility, honesty, and compassion, not places where power seeks legitimacy without accountability.
Ironically, the very scriptures so often quoted by politicians repeatedly emphasize justice, integrity, honesty, and defending the vulnerable. They condemn corruption, oppression, greed, and the abuse of power. They do not teach that holding public office is proof of divine approval. If anything, they demand higher standards from those entrusted with leadership.
Kenyans deserve better than staged displays of piety.
We deserve leaders who understand that public service is measured by hospitals that function, schools that educate, roads that are completed, jobs that are created, businesses that thrive, institutions that uphold justice, and taxes that are spent honestly.
Not photo opportunities.
Not slogans.
Not increasingly expensive prayer breakfasts and bribery campaigns while citizens are told to tighten their belts.
We have a vision for Kenya that rejects the hate, incompetence, corruption, lawlessness, ignorance, and evil of the UDA-ODM regime, and instead offers a better future for Kenyans.
That future will not be built through performative religiosity or politicking. It will be built through competent leadership, accountable institutions, constitutionalism, economic opportunity, respect for human rights, and leaders who understand that power belongs to the people—not to those who claim God has already chosen them.
That's why we will win in 2027, if we work towards rallying behind one united opposition candidate.
Not because we pray harder.
But because Kenyans deserve better.
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