President Uhuru Kenyatta on Friday announced a halt of all new government-funded projects.
Addressing all state accounting officers and university Vice Chancellors in Nairobi on Friday, Uhuru termed the move as one measure aimed at ensuring that state officers take full responsibility towards the completion of the current projects.
He added that it will as well allocate the government enough time to finalize on existing ones and curb corruption and wastage of government funds.
Though good for the nation, the move is disadvantageous to his Deputy William Ruto who is known for his weekly launches, most of which usually take a political turn as his allies endorse his 2022 presidential candidature.
Ruto has throughout the Jubilee administration's second term been using the launches as an excuse to secretly popularize his pending bid, with the DP now likely to remain locked out of his popularity mechanism.
This will, in turn, see him experience a slight reduction in popularity which might translate to him getting slightly irrelevant.
Unlike now when he has the launches as his campaign tool and can easily brag of the projects to woo the people to his side, a continuation of the halt will see him lack anything to tell people to vote for him.
It is as well disadvantageous to his allies, some of whom also rely on his movements for political mileage and to be seen close to him in areas deemed his strongholds, meaning that they might also have it hard making it back due to the disrupting.
The DP recently claimed that his constitutional job is to spearhead such launches after the President accused him of loitering and it will be very interesting to watch his next move.