'Some people panic when the youth speak': Uhuru takes swipe at President Ruto

Former President Uhuru Kenyatta has taken a jab at his successor, President William Ruto, cheekily remarking how his regime becomes uneasy whenever the youth voice their concerns.

Speaking at the wedding of David Kimoi, former Baringo Senator Gideon Moi's son, Uhuru revealed how the late retired President Daniel Moi showed him the ropes in his political journey and wasn't agitated by young people.

In a veiled jab at the current regime, Uhuru compared how Ruto's administration is unable to withstand the pressure from the youths who call for better governance.

"You know, I tell people that I had a biological father who was a politician who put political genes in my system, and they are still there, but now they are lying low," the former President pointed out. 

"But I also had a political father (Moi), and you know he wasn't scared of young people like some people around here today. When young people talk, they panic."

In the past weeks, Uhuru has been on a clarion call for a youth-led revolution, citing that they are the last line of defence to rescue the nation for the sake of future generations. 

President Ruto's henchmen, however, took issue with Uhuru's remarks and accused him of sidelining the youth during his term, but now brandishing himself as their champion. 

"Former President Uhuru Kenyatta, during his 10 years in office, appointed Mzee Moody Awori, then aged 91, as the chairman of the Sports Fund," Kimilili MP Didmus Barasa said during an interdenominational fundraiser in Malava Constituency recently.

"When questioned, he said young people are thieves, and he preferred appointing an elder. Today he says he loves the youth — that is hypocrisy. Unless he changes his ways, even Jesus will not return!"