Nyamira Senator Okong'o Omogeni now says that the next president will have a hard time governing the country, judging by the harm he says the current leadership has done.
Speaking on Monday, he based his argument on the country's huge foreign debt, especially to China, saying that so huge is the debt that the nation appears mortgaged.
He, therefore, noted that the next president will have to deal with the situation, adding that new presidents have always found themselves with a tough streamlining task while taking over.
He cited the 2003 situation where ex-President Mwai Kibaki had to deal with a corrupt nation, linking the same to his (Kibaki) predecessor, Daniel Moi's government.
"When Kibaki became president in 2003 he said he was inheriting a country ravaged by corruption. The person who will take over in 2022 is going to take over a country mortgaged to external forces," he said.
He spoke on NTV's AM Live show on Monday morning.
The government has been under criticism over its appetite for debts, amounting to trillions of shillings, but it has defended itself, saying the amount is sustainable.
In 2018, the then Auditor-General Edward Ouko claimed that the Mombasa Port has been placed as collateral for the Sh227 billion Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) debt to China.