We can’t live to term the rich ‘hustlers’ while we both know who a hustler is meant to refer to.
It is a tag for the suffering Kenyan and not for a Deputy President like William Ruto who is in fact “a billionaire who lives large and swims in money”.
Mombasa Governor Hassan Joho has castigated Deputy President William Ruto for referring to himself “hustler number one” when he is in fact he is currently among the richest in the country.
Speaking in Lamu, an agitated Mr Joho said DP Ruto does not seem to understand that the real hustlers are the millions of jobless graduates in the country, those struggling to eke out a living and the poor orphans, widows and the disabled who have been forced to live one day at a time, hopping that tomorrow will be better.
According to Mr Joho, it is a big mockery to the Kenyan people for the DP to refer to himself as “hustler number one” when he lives in a home worth billions of shillings while many Kenyans are languishing in slums with thousands of others squatting after their land was grabbed.
The governor told Dr Ruto to stop playing with the minds of Kenyans and lying to them that he is poor.
“Stop moving around pretending that you are a hustler while you’re not. How can a hustler live in a mansion costing billions while travelling in more than five choppers? Stop confusing Kenyans and the world who know the real hustler is a person who has nothing, can’t afford anything even his daily bread. He wakes up without knowing what he will eat today or tomorrow. That’s the real hustler that we Kenyans know my friend,” said Mr Joho.