Hosting X Space conversation with Gen Zs is a big mistake, President Ruto told

Former Agriculture Minister Kipruto Kirwa has advised President William Ruto against holding a conversation on the X (formerly Twitter) platform with the Gen Zs to discuss issues affecting the country.

Kirwa termed the move as a “big mistake” as a majority of Kenyans are dissatisfied with the current administration’s past two years in power.

He said that the President should have remained at the background and allowed for other organs of the government to interact with the Kenyan youth and only appear when called upon.

“The President should refrain from being in the forefront of every fire. The meeting with Gen Z is ill advised. It is a big mistake,” he said in an interview on KTN News 

“What he should have done is to see how the various organs of government should have interfaced with the young people and at the right time he comes in when he is called to do so.”

Further, the former United Democratic Alliance (UDA) Vice Chairperson advised Cabinet Secretaries and their advisors to speak in one voice to ensure effective operations at their various ministries.

He warned the Head of State against surrounding himself with advisors at the expense of his CSs, terming it a recipe for disaster.

“Advisors are not bad per se but they must sit in the architecture of the ministry so that they’re seen to be supporting the minister and not forming another sub-committee of the Cabinet,” Kirwa pointed out.

“The danger is if the President was to surround himself with the advisors at the exclusion of the ministers, there is going to be a lot of information conflict.”

The President, alongside his Cabinet, is set to host an X space on Friday from 2pm to 5pm to discuss critical issues voiced by the Kenyan youth in the past weeks of anti-government protests. 

Kenyans online have, however, dismissed the conversation, citing that the President and the Cabinet should be invited to talk on a space hosted by the Gen Zs.

They have since created a parallel X Space at that time, appealing to other Kenyan youths to refrain from joining the President’s Space conversation.