President William Ruto's greatest mistake was to silence the opposition and have total control of all arms of government.

Before his handshake with Raila, Ruto had paralysed and made it difficult for Raila to operate, he also captured Parliament and Judiciary taking away all avenues of the people to express their dissatisfaction.

Ruto forgot one rule in governance, that the people MUST have a representative. They must be represented or they will rise up and represent themselves.

When the people saw no one would help them with their concerns, they rose and the rest is history.