From a church pulpit in Uasin Gishu, President William Ruto offered Kenya a familiar proposition: that a nation must dare to imagine its future even while struggling with its present. His Vision 2060 — a long-term development blueprint modeled on Kibaki's Vision 2030 — has drawn sharp opposition from leaders who argue that a government failing to address today's poverty, unemployment, and broken healthcare has no credibility planning four decades ahead. The debate cuts to a tension as old as governance itself: whether visionary ambition and urgent relief are rivals or companions, and who gets