More recently in defiance of ICC Prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo’s prohibition on suspects fraternising ODM’s William Ruto former Minister of Higher Education and of Agriculture and Joshua arap Sang the KASS FM broadcaster named by the ICC were together at an Emo event in the Rift Valley...
Ocampo named on 15 December four other Kenyans – along with Kenyatta and Muthaura – whom he judges most to blame for the murderous violence that followed the 2007 election: William Ruto the recently deposed Agriculture Minister and former Higher Education Minister and a key Kalenjin leader from Eldoret North where the worst of the violence took place; Henry Kosgey the Industrialisation Minister an important Odinga supporter the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) Chairman and a Kalenjin member of parliament from Tinderet constituency in Nandi Hills another Rift Valley hot spot for violence; a retired Police Commissioner Major General Mohammed Hussein Ali an ethnic Somali and current Postmaster General; and Joshua arap Sang presenter of a morning phone-in show ‘Lene Emet’ (How is the country...
It was brought by William Ruto’s ally Isaac Ruto (no relation) and proposed the withdrawal of Kenya from the Rome Statute which founded the ICC...
Two former witnesses Ken Braziz Wekesa and William Kepkemboi Rono who were under a Kenya National Commission of Human Rights witness protection programme went public in November with claims that the KNCHR had coached them to deliver witness statements against William Ruto...
On 14 December 85 members of parliament – Party of National Unity (PNU) members as well as allies of suspended Higher Education Minister William Ruto – gathered at the Panafric Hotel in Nairobi to plot setting up a local tribunal but the meeting ended in disarray...
William Ruto certainly believed it and made the point repeatedly at public rallies...
In the short term the political tensions will initially bolster the Kikuyu-Kalenjin-Kamba alliance whose principal actors include both Uhuru Kenyatta and William Ruto both accused...
The point of William Ruto’s voluntary mission to the Hague to meet investigators at the International Criminal Court on 4-6 November became clear when he returned to Nairobi...
The suspension of Higher Education Minister William Ruto 43 from cabinet on 19 October marks the second phase of the Kalenjin leader’s political isolation...
7 million Kikuyu votes would cancel out his loss of the Rift Valley after he fell out with Kalenjin leader William Ruto...
He was once thought to be a wavering watermelon (green on the outside for Yes red inside for No) and before that a supporter of the short-lived Kikuyu Kalenjin Kikuyu group along with William Ruto the Minister for Higher Education and Uhuru Kenyatta Minister of Finance (AC Vol 51 No 12)...
Both William Ruto and ex-President Daniel arap Moi whipped up local support for the No vote...
The battle between the green Yeses and the red Noes is heating up since William Ruto the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) Minister of Higher Education hitched on to the coat-tails of Christian clerics and his own Rift Valley majimboists to block the Yes campaign...
While the ‘Yes’ rally in Nairobi was going on the ‘No’ campaign led by Higher Education Minister William Ruto in alliance with senior church leaders was rallying against the draft in Musyoka’s Ukambani heartland in Eastern Province...