• In the spirit of reminiscing, MP Kihara has condemned the 2022 campaigns as a parade of overblown promises and political exaggeration –revealing her deep disappointment in President Ruto’s unfulfilled transformation agenda.

Naivasha Member of Parliament (MP) Jayne Kihara – once a vocal ally riding high on United Democratic Alliance (UDA) 2022 campaign wave – has shed her pro-Ruto skin and reemerged as a fierce critic of the very government she helped usher in.

In a stunning twist of political fate, MP Jayne Kihara has crossed the floor to back former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua.

In her view, her stance explains her recent controversial arrest by the Directorate of Criminal Investigation (DCI), which she dismissed as a calculated attempt to muzzle dissent against President Ruto’s government.

On July 18, 2025, she was arraigned before a Nairobi court and charged with making statements deemed to threaten public order.

The controversy stems from her accusation that dozens of youths were allegedly ferried to Naivasha town to stoke unrest during the Saba Saba protests. The MP was later released on a bond of Ksh50,000.

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She has branded the arrest as political harassment, saying, “I don’t incite. I don’t say things that I have not personally checked. So, this is just intimidation and persecution because of my political stand.”

The legislator has expressed misplaced faith in Ruto’s style of leadership, citing that he has clung to campaign mode long after clinching the presidency.

In the same breath, however, she has affirmed that she holds no regret for backing Ruto during the 2022 high-stakes election, describing it as her democratic duty to champion the party’s torchbearer.

In the spirit of reminiscing, MP Kihara has condemned the 2022 campaigns as a parade of overblown promises and political exaggeration –revealing her deep disappointment in President Ruto’s unfulfilled transformation agenda.

“I went around this country and we over-promised, if not over-lied. We told a lot of lies and we didn’t know because we thought President Ruto had the solutions for this country. I was looking forward to this change,” she stated.

Borrowing from the UDA’s 2022 manifesto, which was coined The Plan, MP Kihara has denied the existence of a plan, citing that it was just a name and the current regime had no solid plot for the country.

Linking the hollow blueprint to the surging youth-led protests, Kihara has claimed that the young people are finally waking up to the truth: the government has no roadmap.

The lawmaker has sounded a clarion call to the political class to address the deep-seated rot, such as corruption, rallying the country's leadership to cultivate a sense of goodwill to help Kenyans.

She has further called on the government to abandon its “advertisement” role and let the citizenry feel its effectiveness rather than hear it.