Kang'ata spoke during an interview with Kameme TV on Monday, June 22, 2026, addressing the political mood within the Mount Kenya region and what the Finance Bill vote revealed about where things stood.
He said the scale of the absence was too consistent across the region to be dismissed as coincidence.
"The Finance Bill was voted on in Parliament, but the truth is that 95 per cent of leaders in Parliament from Mount Kenya did not go to Parliament, including those who support the government," Kang'ata said.
"The most likely scenario is that they skipped the session because they will not end up supporting the government," he said.
Kang'ata addressed Ruto directly on the matter, saying the President needed to register what the absence of his own region's lawmakers was communicating.
"Even as a president, you should note that," he said.
He went further and described a pattern he said had been developing quietly for some time.
Some of the same legislators who had been privately reassuring the government of their support were pulling back whenever constituents pushed in the other direction.
"Some of the leaders have been telling the government that they support it, but at some point, they go slow," Kang'ata said.
The figures from the June 18, 2026 vote gave weight to his argument. Of the 349 members of the National Assembly, only 162 turned up for the session.
Among those present, 122 voted to pass the bill and 40 voted against it. The remaining 187 members took no part in the vote, meaning a bill affecting millions of Kenyans was passed by approximately a third of Parliament.
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