The Urgency of Now: Kalonzo Musyoka’s Clarion Call to Grief, Resistance, and Renewal as Kenya Marches Toward 2026.

The Urgency of Now: Kalonzo Musyoka’s Clarion Call to Grief, Resistance, and Renewal as Kenya Marches Toward 2026.

By MAXIMILLA WAFULA 

The County Diary News

December 30, 2025 - 

As 2025 draws to a close, Kenya stands at a defining crossroads caught between grief and resolve, despair and determination. In a powerful end-of-year address titled “The Urgency of Now,” Wiper Patriotic Front leader Dr. Stephen Kalonzo Musyoka issued a searing reflection on the state of the nation while laying down a bold call to action for 2026.

The year, he said, was marked by profound national loss. Kenya bid farewell to towering figures who shaped its democratic conscience, among them Rt. Hon. Raila Amollo Odinga, Rasna Warah, Pheroze Norwojee, Phoebe Asiyo, Catherine Nyamato, David Mulwa, Mumbi wa Maina, and globally acclaimed writer Prof. Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o. Their lives, Kalonzo noted, represented courage, justice, and an unyielding demand for freedom values he urged Kenyans to carry forward.

Yet beyond remembrance lay anger and sorrow over the bloodshed of young Kenyans during protests and police operations. Names such as Rex Maasai, Denzel Omondi, Alfred Ojwang, Eric Shieni, Boniface Kariuki, and young Bridgit Njoki were invoked as symbols of a moral failure in governance. He also cited the abduction of civic activist Rosemary Njeri as evidence of shrinking democratic space, calling the violence a dark legacy of the current regime.

Painting a grim picture of daily life, Kalonzo described an economy buckling under high taxes, runaway cost of living, mass unemployment, and policy uncertainty that has driven investors away.

He decried rising insecurity, police brutality, and a healthcare system in crisis under the SHA/SHIF framework, where families are pushed into poverty or denied dignity even in death. Education, once a ladder of opportunity, he said, has become a burden, with hundreds of thousands of learners uncertain of their future under the CBC transition.

Rejecting what he termed “Rutobottomship” bottomless corruption and top-down greed Kalonzo dismissed claims of transforming Kenya into Singapore, warning instead of a looming “Singapoor” defined by debt, nepotism, and crony capitalism. He cautioned against proposed referendum distractions, insisting that the only referendum Kenyans want is at the ballot box in August 2027.

In a decisive moment, Kalonzo declared his candidacy for President, positioning the United Opposition as a government-in-waiting. He pledged tax relief, job creation through a 24-hour economy, restored professionalism, an end to police brutality, affordable healthcare, strengthened education, and a renewed war on corruption.

His closing message was unequivocal: change will not come through silence but through action.

Register, vote, and reclaim the nation. As Kenya steps into 2026, the call rings clear Komb oa Kenya. The urgency, he reminded the nation, is now.