Nairobi Senator Edwin Sifuna has told Kenyans that the Linda Mwananchi Movement will not come to them with sweet promises, but with honesty, even when the truth is hard to hear.
Asked whether Kenyans could hold him accountable to his people-first agenda come rain or shine, Sifuna did not hesitate, saying that they are not making promises they will not keep.
“We will not make promises that we cannot keep. We will accept that things will be tough, things will be difficult,” he said, in an interview on Thursday 30th April, 2026.
Sifuna added that whoever takes over from the current administration will inherit a country that has been heavily indebted for the next 15 years.
“I feel bad for the next administration because if you see the sort of things that these guys are doing right now, they have securitised everything, they have taken debts on everything for like the next 15 years. So it will be very tough, but we will be true,” he said.
Sifuna said his movement is built on transparency, comparing honest leadership to warning someone about a collapsing roof rather than watching them sit under it.
“If this roof is collapsing and I know it’s collapsing, why would I just sit here and allow you to die?” he said.
On what he believes is Kenya’s biggest problem, Sifuna was direct, stating that the country does not have a hardware problem but a software problem.
One rooted in broken values, a weakened rule of law, and the destruction of meritocracy.
He pointed to the current state of graduate unemployment as a symptom of a system that rewards connections over qualifications, recalling a time when law firms would recruit students straight from university classrooms.
“Right now, we have people graduating, eight-year graduates of education, who never get an opportunity to be employed. And because we have destroyed the system of meritocracy, the president takes TSC letters and distributes them amongst members of parliament,” he said.
Sifuna said the country he wants to build is one where your qualifications speak louder than who you know, and where investors can put their money without fear of being harassed out of business.
He closed by thanking the media for providing a platform for open conversations, expressing hope that independent voices would continue to be heard.
