Saboti MP Caleb Amisi explained why Kenya’s political class has failed the country and why the time for young people to take the wheel is now.
In an interview on Fixing the Nation on Wednesday, 6th May 2026, Amisi opened with a personal observation, saying that the same old people and faces, are still the ones holding positions.
“When I was three years old, Musalia Mudavadi was the Minister for Transport. I’m now a second-term Member of Parliament. He is still a minister. I mean, there is something odd about our system,” he said.
He walked through every election since 2002, showing how the same faces have simply been reshuffling positions, switching sides, and forming new coalitions while the country stays stuck in the same place.
The late Raila, Ruto, Uhuru, Kalonzo, Mudavadi, Wetangula, different alliances, same people, same results.
“Have these people changed? No. The young people grew up knowing the same people, and they say, something is terribly wrong with our country,” Amisi said.
When the interviewer suggested that perhaps not everyone needs to go and that what matters is changing the variables within the same system, Amisi pushed back.
He compared Kenya’s situation to post-apartheid South Africa, saying the message was never about physically removing people but about making space for new voices and new ideas.
“We are not saying they are going out of the country or chasing them to Uganda. We are just saying, the young people need a space to determine their future. For 40 years, the same cabal of people have been there with no change. Can you give space for new people to give new ideas?” he stated.
He pointed to the momentum behind Linda Mwananchi as proof that Kenyans are hungry for something different.
“Why is the United Opposition not moving a mountain? But when Sisi na Sifuna comes and Linda Mwananchi is moving a mountain, why? People are trying to see something new,” he said.
Amisi also warned that if the current generation of younger leaders fails to deliver change through the democratic system, the generation coming after them will lose patience with democracy altogether.
“If we do not change this country democratically, then these young people who are coming after us, they will do a revolution. They will get tired. They will not want anything to do with democracy,” Amisi concluded.
