William Ruto vs Uhuru Kenyatta

Finance Acts and levies raised the tax take, while the state also funds or runs housing, health cover (SHA) and input subsidies. The record points both ways. (medium confidence)

Pursued debt-financed, state-led megaprojects such as the Chinese-funded Standard Gauge Railway, and signed a cap on bank interest rates in 2016 (repealed 2019). Public debt rose sharply. (medium confidence)

Signed Finance Acts whose levies were criticised as falling on consumers and payrolls. The Hustler Fund and subsidies point the other way. Contested. (low confidence)

The government reported issuing millions of title deeds (its own figures). No major redistribution. (low confidence)

Rights groups and critics allege executive overreach. Supporters point to laws passing through Parliament. Not court-settled in this pass. (low confidence)

Courts ruled the BBI constitutional-change drive unconstitutional, upheld by the Supreme Court in March 2022. Refused for years to appoint judges nominated by the JSC. He did accept the 2017 Supreme Court nullification and went to a rerun. (medium confidence)

Governs in a broad-based arrangement with ODM and is moving toward a formal 2027 coalition with it. (medium confidence)

Son of the first president. Governed as the establishment, then backed Raila Odinga against his own deputy in 2022. (high confidence)

Rights organisations documented deaths and abductions around the 2024 protests. The government disputes parts of this. (medium confidence)

Switched off three TV stations in January 2018 and kept them off despite a court order. Signed the 2018 cybercrimes law, parts of which courts suspended. (medium confidence)