Ruto's Secret Diaspora Game Changer

March 10, 2022

Ruto left the country on 27th of February this year for a 12-day tour of the United States and the United Kingdom where he also meet Kenyans in the Diaspora.

In his USA tour, Ruto revealed that plans are underway to rig the August polls, gave details on the frosty relationship between him and President Uhuru Kenyatta as well as the impediments of delivery of the Big Four agenda.

On Friday last week, while in the United States, Ruto who is running for the Presidency said he would accept the outcome of the August 9 elections if done in a free and fair manner.

“I am a firm believer in the rule of law and will accept the outcome of the elections,” Ruto said during an interview at the Centre for Strategic International Studies moderated by Mvemba Phezo Dizolele.

The United Democratic Alliance (UDA) party leader pointed out that the major issue on the ballot in the upcoming polls is the democracy of the country and whether voters are granted a chance to make their own choices, devoid of blackmail, threats and intimidation.

“That is the matter that is on the ballot, and that’s a matter that many Kenyans in fact if you understand a little bit of Swahili, that is what informs the current push by many Kenyans to say hatupangwingwi. Meaning, (we want to make our own choices without being choreographed, chaperoned, blackmailed or intimidated),” Ruto said.

DP Ruto further stated that the August 9 polls will also give Kenyans an opportunity to make important decisions about the country’s economy and its democratization pointing out that “there is a feeling that our economy has been captured and curtailed and brokered and become exclusionist.”

He added that his administration will be pushing for an all-inclusive economy once he is elected to office.

The trip sparked mixed reactions from leaders who termed ruto as a dishonest leader who attacks a government that feeds him . One of the leaders being Francis Atwoli.

Francis Atwoli responded to Deputy President William Ruto who referred to him as ‘foolish’ while speaking to Kenyans in the diaspora on Sunday.

In London Ruto said it was stupid for Atwoli, who is the Central Organisation of Trade Unions (COTU) Secretary General, to oppose the regularisation of NHIF reforms.

“When we came into office, we had 3.8 million people contributing to NHIF. Everybody was contributing Sh320, just like the Sh200 of NSSF. We decided to adjust so that the people who earn more, can pay more...but we were taken to court by a stupid man called Atwoli, he is a very foolish person,” said the DP.

But in a rejoinder, Atwoli alleges the DP was angry because he allegedly tried to stop him from laying his hands on funds meant for the National Social Security Fund (NSSF).

“He calls me names when he is in London, telling the whole world that Atwoli is the most stupid person…It is better to be stupid that to be a thief,” Atwoli said.

Already, a section of Kenyans and leaders have expressed worries over what they have termed plans by the country’s ‘deep state’ to steal the elections and impose leaders on them.