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Gideon Moi dares DP William Ruto to political duel


Senator Gideon Moi challenges DP William Ruto to face him at 2017 elections

By Fred Kibor
Updated Monday, March 30th 2015 at 13:54 GMT +3

Baringo Senator Gideon Moi Friday dared Deputy President (DP) William Ruto to a fierce political duel come the next General Election.

Moi vowed that he was ready to take on the DP politically, urging Ruto to respect him as a polical competitor.

"My competitors including the DP, should popularise their parties because I am prepared to go all the way to the finish line but I will publicly declare my bid when the time comes," he said.

He warned his competitors against dismissing his political ambition.

"I went to Uasin Gishu and Trans Nzoia counties to help address maize issues that farmers are facing there. But I was shocked when the DP came and dismissed me as a political greenhorn," said Moi.

Moi who remained tight-lipped on whether he will run for the presidential seat in the election said he was not a political coward but maintained he will square it with the DP.

"As leaders, we should be consolidating our efforts to address the challenges facing our people but not play cheap politics and disparaging each other in public," he charged.

Moi dismissed those saying he was there to divide Kalenjins: "I am in the Rift and people should desist from saying am the rift among our leaders."

"I will not shy away from commenting on his that are pertinent to economy of Kenyans. If a maize farmer queues to deliver his produce for more than two weeks do you want me to keep silent as if nothing is happening? posed the Kanu chairman.

Speaking at Kalya Primary School in Marakwet East during a funds drive, Moi warned leaders against politicising issues affecting Kenyans.

He was accompanied by West Pokot Senator John Lonyangapuo, his Elgeyo Marakwet counterpart Kipchumba Murkomen, Kanu Secretary General Nick Salat, former Marakwet East MP John Marimoi and Kapyego ward representative Benson Kiptire, who hosted Moi.

Lonyangapuo warned Jubilee affiliated members against disrespecting other leaders saying it was detrimental to the coalition's numerical strength in the Senate and Parliament.

"Jubilee is made up of different parties. As Kanu, we demand respect for our party members," said the Senator.

Salat said continued political onslaught was in bad taste since they had not invaded anybody's turf.

"We are being disparaged and we wonder whose eggs we have stepped on?"he said.
He added "Our competitors should know that Kanu has awakened and should brace themselves for a bruising battle during the next general elections because every corner of the country was willing to join us."

But Murkomen who spoke before Moi, said all Kalenjin communities should rally behind the DP to ascend to presidency come 2022.

"When retired President Moi was the president, all leaders including Ruto, supported him. Now we have one of our own going for the top seat, we should rally behind him," he said.

He asked Moi to shelve him presidential ambition and support Ruto.

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Ruto tells Gideon Moi he is not ready for State House, DP declares he will be 5th president in 2022

Deputy President William Ruto on Saturday told presidential hopefuls that the Presidency was not vacant, and cautioned them against premature campaigns.

He told those eying the presidency in 2017 to hold their horses since he and President Uhuru Kenyatta are equal to the task and will proceed to retain both positions since they have the voters' goodwill.

The DP in apparent reference to Gideon Moi and Bomet governor Isaac Rutto's presidential ambitions said they needed to give him and Uhuru more time to deliver.

Ruto told Kalenjin leaders who were elected in the 2013 general election to concentrate their energies on developing their region and stop politicking at the expense of much-needed services to citizens.

He said it is too early for a section of Kalenjin elected leaders to start declaring their presidential candidature as if there were a leadership vacuum in the ruling Jubilee Alliance Party.

"President Uhuru and I are here to stay and, come the 2017 general election, will defend our positions and win with a margin that one would never thought of," Ruto said in Kapkatet Grounds, Kericho county.

After Uhuru's final term of office in 2022, Ruto told the gathering, he will succeed him as the Fifth President of Kenya, through a popular vote across the country.

"Jubilee sio serikali ya nusu mkate, mimi na Rais Uhuru tuko mamlakani kwa mapenzi ya Mwenyeenzi Mungu na walio tupigia kura (the Jubilee government is no half-loaf coalition government, President Uhuru and I are in power by the grace of God and were democratically elected by the majority of Kenyans)," Ruto declared.
 
Isaac Ruto: Deputy President William Ruto is a roaming dictator, disaster waiting to happen

March 24, 2015

By Standard Newspaper

Political rivalry in the Rift Valley between Deputy President William Ruto and his namesake who is the Bomet Governor Isaac Ruto burst at the seams when the governor declared without elaboration that the former Eldoret North MP was unfit to rule.

Reacting to weekend calls by the DP to the leaders of South Rift to isolate the Bomet governor, who also doubles up as the chairman of the Council of Governors, Isaac Ruto claimed the DP was a divisive leader who was sponsoring sabotage of the devolved units.

He also claimed there were clear signs that the DP was unfit to command, citing what he called "obvious reasons".

But the DP's office hit back with a dismissal of the governor as a ‘village elder' seeking attention.

Bomet Governor Isaac Ruto, who is grappling with rebellion in his county, has branded Deputy President William Ruto a roaming dictator who ought not to be trusted with the country's leadership over what he called "obvious reasons", with no elaboration whatsoever.

In a bare-knuckle attack that highlighted the rapid deterioration of relations between the two, the Council of Governors (CoG) chairman took issue with the DP's remarks in Kericho County at the weekend when he urged local leaders to shun the Bomet governor who is critical of the Jubilee government.

"Instead of the DP concentrating on uniting Kenyans and finding ways to address their grievances, he is busy sabotaging counties and sponsoring wrangles among the country's leadership," Governor Ruto said.

"Contrary to his calls to leaders to disassociate with me, I advise Kenyans to shun him (DP)," he told The Standard on phone from Sweden where he is on official duty.

"His leadership will be disastrous for this country due to the obvious reasons Kenyans know. His continuous divisive advice is not healthy for this nation. The DP is a roaming dictator Kenyans should take note of," the governor said.

The latest spat was triggered by utterances at a forum where some MPs from Rift Valley who are close allies of the DP openly suggested that Deputy Speaker Joyce Laboso is being groomed to take on Ruto in the fight for the Bomet governor's seat in the next elections.

The governor, who did not have kind words for the DP, wondered how leaders could spend a whole day discussing his conduct instead of focusing their energies on matters affecting wananchi, like drought, disease and poverty.

In reference to the DP's intention to contest the presidency in 2022, the governor faulted Ruto's leadership style, terming it "ruinous".

"As a leader, we expect him to try to see what is happening across the country and remedy the situation but no, he (DP) is busy planting the seeds of discord among leaders, especially from the Rift Valley," said the governor.

The CoG chairperson went on: "What more evidence do Kenyans need to realise the DP is a dictator? He wants leaders to take his word as final. Anyone with a divergent opinion is a rebel. He is asking leaders not to associate with me. Is this not the height of dictatorship?" Ruto asked.

"MPs from the Rift Valley region have become his sycophants and cannot make independent decisions," he added.

Yesterday, Office of the Deputy President's spokesperson David Mugonyi said:
"We are not going to engage in a merry-go-round with a village elder who suffers from attention disorder and who is seeking relevance."

The DP had warned Kericho Governor Paul Chepkwony, who is the governor's close ally, against associating with him, lest he finds himself "locked in the store" during the 2017 elections.

He said Prof Chepkwony is a gentleman and should concentrate in serving his constituents instead of being "fooled by someone who would lead him to lose touch with voters in the next election".

At the meeting, MPs Ronald Tonui (Bomet Central), Benjamin Lagat (Ainamoi), Bernard Sang (Bureti), Jackson Rop (Kipkelion West), Erick Keter (Belgut), Joseph Limo (Kipkelion East) and Kericho Woman Representative Hellen Chepkwony told the governor to respect Ruto.

The legislators said they would support the newly formed Jubilee Alliance Party (JAP), which Governor Ruto has dismissed, and also back Ruto's presidential bid come 2022.

Yesterday, Governor Ruto said the dispute between Tililbei Water Company, which supplies water to more than 40,000 Bureti residents in Kericho County, and Bomet Water Company, which had warned it would disconnect supply from its main source in Itare over a Sh39 million bill, had been solved.

Governor Ruto asked the DP to steer clear of the matter, as it was not affecting MPs or the national government but the counties of Bomet and Kericho.

"There is no cause for panic, or worries. We sorted out this matter with Chepkwony long before the DP thought it is of urgency. It has been on for the last two years over unpaid electricity bills," he explained.

"Though the two companies have been in constant touch, we stepped in as the two governors concerned. There will be no disconnection; and it does not require the intervention of MPs," he explained.

He said instead of the DP asking Chepkwony not to talk to him, he should have come up with a solution on how to offset the outstanding electricity bill.
"It means the DP has no agenda for the region, especially the South Rift, and is only interested in engaging in empty politics."

During the Saturday meeting, which Governor Ruto did not attend, his county government came under criticism for allegedly issuing an ultimatum to Tililbei Water Company to offset the bills or face disconnection.

The DP asked Chepkwony to intervene over the matter by talking to his Bomet counterpart.

Ruto promised to intervene if the two counties at the centre of the stand-off failed to reach an amicable solution.

The DP and Rift Valley leaders, who accompanied him, labelled Governor Ruto a "troublemaker and a person who is rocking the Jubilee boat from within".

Isaac Ruto: Deputy President William Ruto is a roaming dictator, disaster waiting to happen!

Kenya Today|By Standard Newspaper Political rivalry in the Rift Valley between Deputy President William Ruto and his namesake who is the Bomet Governor Isaac Ruto
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TOP ADVISERS in DP Ruto's office RESIGN protesting lack of professionalism

March 30, 2015

Senior advisers to the office of the Deputy President William Ruto have resigned and some have shifted camps to the President's office accusing the DP of being unable to consume ‘professional advice'.

The technocrats in essence are echoing what Bomet Governor Isaac Rutto recently said of the Deputy President – that he is a roaming dictator whose word is law – and therefore unfit to be anything beyond his current station (as Deputy President).

Of the six top technocrats in the office of the DP, five have since resigned, including Yale University academic Prof Hino Hiroyuki.

The don, who used to be Economic Affairs Adviser to Former Prime minister Raila Odinga quit a year ago and returned to Yale University.

According to sources, Ruto didn't like him for the mere fact the he used to work as advisor to PM, yet he had been seconded by Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) to advise the government of Kenya on the multi-billion projects Japan was funding.

Another technocrat who has asked to be released from the DP's office is Dr. James Nyoro, a food humanist whose paper on food security was dismissed by the botanist-cum-politician William Ruto as ‘idiotic'.

Nyoro accuses Ruto of having no capacity to grasp professional advice.

In sternest terms attributed to him, Njoro protested the ‘lack of professionalism and scarce attention to detail' that is the modus operandi of the DP, a claim DP Ruto's head of communications David Mugonyi has vehemently dismissed as ‘no story', saying his boss is a professional pursuing a PhD.

Ruto registered for a post-graduate degree in the 1990s and is yet to finish his studies. He is among Kenya's longest learning PhD students!

Former Permanent secretary on Climate Change Ali Mohammed has moved to the ministry of Foreign Affairs. He was hired as senior advisor on Climate Change.

Two more officials have also moved from the DP's office. Jasper Mbiuki, Legislative Affairs and Peter Kariuki, Governance, Accountability and Deliver Adviser are said to have crossed over to OP where they worked before being seconded to the DP's office.

Ruto's Chief of Staff Maryanne Keitanny are among national government officials who were suspended due to corruption.

From the goings on at the DP's office, it appears the only senior official with DP's ears remaining is his Private Secretary Farouk Kibet. However, the tragedy with Mr. Kibet is that he is a std 3 drop-out who cannot consume anything technical to position the DP's office as a serious governance unit within the presidency.

Critics of Kibet also claim he is only fluent in Nandi language and depend on it so much so that if you want anything to be pushed by him, you have to translate it then express it in the Nandi dialect, an arduous task.

TOP ADVISERS in DP Ruto’s office RESIGN protesting lack of professionalism – big blow!
 
He is becoming a political buggage, (or is it garbage?) to Uhuru. He is slowly bringing the Jubilee administration into disrepute.

I sympathize with Uhuru, cos I know there's no way he can fire him without antagonizing some pipo. Some really really really power-fool pipo :sad:
 

Ati Ruto akiachiliwa utakuwa na stress? Do you have any evidence against him? Anyway, in 2013 pia mi "nilikuwa naskia" ati kesi ya Uhuru iko water-tight kushinda ya Ruto...

Na ukikuwa na stress, don't worry, you'll be in good company. Hata Makau Mutua alikuwa anasema "crystal ball," inamuonyesha bla bla. Na kuwa Uhuru akiachiliwa, basi yeye atajiuwa; Uhuru aliachiliwa na Mutua bado anandika kwenye magezeti akifoka kila siku. Ruto will be free by the end of the year...and don't be surprised ukifa kabla yake na hizo chuki zako.


If URP affiliates ndio walikuwa wengi, huoni kuwa yeye alikuwaready kutupa his own people under the bus? Hao politicians wengine wenye wanalia wamekula mlungula mda gani?

Do you have evidence kwamba they were proxies acting on "direct orders?" ama ni hadithi za bar unazoeneza?

Political dynamics in Rift Valley? Wow..ati the "public" is putting "immense pressure?" public gani? Na hii "public" ilikuwa wapi 2013? Hii public unayoongea kuhusu ni ile "public" yenye ilisupport wapinzani wa Jubilee. Tusijidanganye. Politics will always be divisive, na kutakuwa na section ya kusupport, na ya kupinga. Hiyo ndio sababu tuko na uchaguzi. Hivi sasa mrengo fulani wa siasa unmekuwa ukingoja kwa miaka mbili sasa Ruto na Uhuru wakosane, lakini ng'oo. By the end of 2015 dec, Kesi ya Ruto na Sang itakuwa imetupiliwa mbali na Kazi itaanza.
 

No disrespect, but I find your response rather shallow. my dislike for Ruto is not politically or tribaly inclined, am musing as a patriot, someone who will pick his country over a tribe, political party or a political god. Ruto and his ilk are the cancer sucking the life out of Kenya and i find it pathetic when a supposedly schooled individual comes to his defence, it shows that you are a shallow individual who is blinded by party or tribal politics and that breaks my heart because you are defending the thugs looting your country. Dont ask me about evidence because he has cases, some recently opened, questioning his integrity. Lets not sell our birthright for a morsel of meat.
 

It has nothing to do with party affiliations. You've made numerous allegations which you aren't willing to back up. But as you have said, your tirade is BASED ON HATE. You have even wished him death in the International criminal court jails, because you hate him - but you aren't willing to go to the Hague to be a witness.

Just because cases are in court, dosn't meant that you are guilty. In any case, what is integrity? You have displayed a lack of integrity by accusing a person without any evidence that he is a murderer a rapist and so on (for those are the crimes at the Hague.) Does that mean that you too deserve to die?

You have made a claim that "Uhuru is under Immense pressure from the public to kick out Ruto." Where did you get this? You indeed have a lot of integrity.

P.S. I'm a patriot too and a great one at that.
 

Where the'res smoke, there's fire.
Sio kuchukiwa. He's our brother.
Lakini hizi maallegations nyingi nyingi zinamwandama jo. Why him?
 
Huyo jamaa jina yake mbaya, ukweli usemwe tu.
Hakuna haja ya kumtetea, yeye ndiye ajitokeze, aeleze ni kwanini maallegations zimekuwa zikimuandama hivo, tangu sijui 1992.
Sio ufujaji wa parastatals, land grabbing(hata ya shule),money printing for elections,smuggling, tribal violence instigation, briberies, mahindi... Ni nini!

Hakuna cha kutetea hapa.
Kwani hata evidence itolewe hapa what will become of it? He is well insulated from justice...

I dont hate him, lakini ukweli ni bora tu usemwe.


Unatetea kitu gani?
 
kadoda11 said:
my colleagues from western kenya who had the ambition of becoming presidents,would have to wait till 2050.kenya is for central kenyans ruling class only.
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Our political landscape is fast changing. In the coming years, it may be less on a person's ethnic background and station in life and more on ones ability to deliver. That may depend on the prevailing circumstances.
I.e, should factors such as the cost of living, insecurity, unemployment,escalate beyond proportions now, would the kikuyus still be willing to vote for Uhuru come 2017?

Our attitudes are fast changing, with each coming generation.
Who knows, a charismatic and more appealing NEasterner might emerge and trounce all these so called 'political heavyweights'.

You never know, with Kenyan politics, really.
 

sounds easy to speak but practically that wont happen due to what i hear from central kenyans an their cousins(the kalenjins).they say letting a north easterners/westerner to become the president of jamuhiri,is like going against a ritual oath they took a long time ago from their ancestors.
 

ndio nashindwa anatetea Ruto Arap Mashamba aje? hawa ni watu wanafaa kufungwa wasiwai ona jua tena, the guy is a thug who will never change his thieving ways
 
What oath? There has never been such oath! Remember the Kalenjins voted for Raila, a luo in 2007 almost to a man. The violence that ensued in the Upper Rift was partly the Kaleos attempting to banish the kiuks (I am sure u are now well acquainted with the Kenyan lingo) from the region.

Kaleos have always resented the kiuks over land.
Huge swathes of that fertile region was allegedly appropriated for the kiuks by the J. Kenyatta regime. The lands were first sequestered by the white settlers,(it was part of the great White Highlands). The lands were returned to the africans after independence.
The kaleos expected their portion returned to them,all of it. They felt shortchanged.
 
Gideon Moi's Game Plan



PRINCE OF POLITICS: Baringo County Senator Gideon Moi addressing a peace crisis meeting at Chesitet in Tiaty Sub-county in East Pokot with President Uhuru Kenyatta. Gideon?s game plan aims at permanently retiring Ruto?s consummate political chameleon stratagems, but this is much easier said than done. The Kenyatta and Moi dynas- ties go back a long way and Uhuru and Gideon knew each other as children before Ruto was even born.

Retired President Daniel Moi's favourite son has lit a complex, slow-burn political fire under Deputy President William Ruto, a man once described by novelist Ngugi wa Thiong'o as ‘the consummate chameleon'

BARINGO Senator Gideon Moi game plan against Deputy President William Ruto is two-pronged and has many layers. It uses both dictionary definitions of ‘game plan', as both a strategy for reaching an objective and the Sports dimension of the strategy devised before or during an event - and then it marinates both deep in Rift Valley and Presidential election politics.

It is clear, for instance, that if Gideon were really aiming at a run for President in 2017, he would not have begun by travelling all over his political backyard and epicenter of Rift Valley. A shrewd team of strategists – and he certainly has one – would have chosen a region like, say, Coast.

Gideon's real target is not President Uhuru Kenyatta's prospects for a second term – it is the Deputy President's political near future. In order to deliver the Kalenjin vote bloc to Uhuru, Ruto stepped on many big toes, including the Moi Dynasty factor.

Analysing the UhuRuto victory after the March 4 2013 Presidential election for the American magazine The New Yorker, Kenya's pioneer novelist Ngugi wa Thiong'o had the following to say about Ruto:

‘A consummate chameleon'

"Uhuru Kenyatta's victory is due in part to his running mate, Mr. Ruto - an odd alliance given that their factions were on opposing sides in the 2007 violence. A consummate chameleon, Mr. Ruto joined forces, in succession, with Mr. Moi, Mr. Odinga and Mr. Kibaki. He was this election's kingmaker, happy to be wooed by both leading candidates".

Gideon's game plan aims at permanently retiring Ruto's consummate political chameleon stratagems, but this is much easier said than done. However, the Kenyatta and Moi dynasties go back a long way and Uhuru and Gideon knew each other as children before Ruto was even born. Both men were the princes of Kenya politics from their late 20s onwards, with Uhuru now king.

Gideon has been in the room every time his Dad has met President Kenyatta since 2013. Ruto and Moi Snr have yet to meet and talk behind closed doors.

Gideon and Uhuru are among the wealthiest Kenyans, and indeed any other Africans, of their generation (born in the 60s), with Gideon assessed as sitting on a fortune worth UK£550 million as long ago as 2005, by no less an authority than Kroll Associates, the world's leading risk and security consultancy as well as forensic accountants and trainers of the US presidency's Secret Service security detail.

President Kenyatta is widely reckoned to be among the very richest Kenyans, including by most Rich Lists analysts. Both these shilling billionaires have many more ties that bind than divide them.

Part of Gideon's game plan is to make political mincemeat of Ruto, the self-described "hustler" who once sold roast maize and live chickens at a roadside for a desperate living.

Caught between two billionaire politicians one of whose parents each is still alive, alert and intensely interested in politics – the matriarch Mama Ngina Kenyatta, Jomo Kenyatta's widow, and the patriarch Daniel Moi – Ruto looks like he's in for a very rough time indeed.

In the annals of use-and-dump Kenyan politics, the fall that Gideon plans for Deputy President Ruto will easily be the most sheer, short of political assassination.

But would Ruto's precipitous fall necessarily mean Gideon's rise to the Presidency? If Mzee Moi and Mama Ngina and their corporate and political networks work together, this could very well turn out to be the case.

For Mzee Moi, 91, seeing his favourite son understudy Jomo's son would be one of the climactic events of a long life in politics.

The Kalenjin voting patterns factor

The $64 million question remains the factor of Kalenjin vote bloc voting patterns.

The Luo and the Kalenjin are unique in Kenyan electioneering in consistently voting as a solid bloc; none of the other big blocs have invariably voted as one, not even the allegedly notoriously insular Kikuyu.

Gideon's game plan, which has also factored in growing discontent among the Kalenjin grassroots against Ruto's performance as a Presidency incumbent, is a split of the Kalenjin vote if his rivalry with Ruto should go all the way to the wire.

Gideon's strategy is a classic Moi era pincer manoeuvre informed by political and security intelligence and designed to achieve a number of major objectives at the same time at the very top, and all of this with an unblinking eye on the Moi Dynasty factor.

So, it is perfectly possible – even probable – that, depending on how things turn out at the ICC, and how Machiavellian Gideon is, he could split the Kalenjin vote before 2017 in such a way that he becomes the better political proposition by far for Uhuru and his Mt Kenya backers than the DP.

Gideon and his handlers have also calculated that he is more palatable than Ruto in large swathes of the Mt Kenya region should push come to shove.

In any case the Kalenjin vote remains united only in so far as the Rift Valley bloc sincerely believe that the Mt Kenyans will unreservedly back Ruto to succeed Uhuru at the end of his second term in 2022. If any doubt should creep into this assumption, if this bubble bursts, then Ruto will turn out to have been a political one-trick pony in 2013.

While Presidential and billionaire sons Kenyatta and Moi are undoubtedly political royalty, they should take the greatest care that they do not create the impression they are dispensing with the Hustler just because he is not royalty. The vast majority of the electorate is not royalty either and Ruto has taken the Kalenjin grassroots in a direction other than the Moi Dynasty's before.

As novelist Ngugi says, Ruto is the consummate political chameleon and has worked with and against everyone else who really matters – including the political princes, one of whom he truly did play kingmaker for.

If Ruto goes down in flames at the ICC, where even a non-custodial sentence (such as an order to pay millions in hard currency reparations to particular victims) would knock him out of politics and out of 2017, Gideon and his handlers had better be sure that they are not blamed, in the Rift Valley electorates' collective mind, with having contributed to that fall.

As former Prime Minister Raila Odinga can readily tell Gideon, in Kenyan ICC-Presidential politics perceptions count for everything and the truth comes up such a distant second it is normally nowhere in sight.

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