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With his estranged Deputy President William Ruto conspicuously absent – it is as yet unclear whether or not he was invited – President Uhuru Kenyatta followed by erstwhile opposition leader Raila Odinga and other political leaders took the pulpit to urge Kenyans and politicians to maintain peace in pointed references to Ruto...
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After Musalia Mudavadi's Amani National Congress revealed that it had instructed its legal team to draft articles of impeachment the idea has been enthusiastically taken up by William Ruto's enemies in the governing Jubilee party...
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The next pitched battle between Deputy President William Ruto and the 'handshake' coalition of President Uhuru Kenyatta and erstwhile opposition leader Raila Odinga is centred over whether and when a by-election to replace impeached Nairobi governor Mike Sonko should be held...
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The political differences between Deputy President William Ruto and President Uhuru Kenyatta are playing themselves out in the tussle to fill the position of the governor of Nairobi...
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Waiting in the wings will be Deputy President William Ruto who has emerged as the main obstacle to both Kenyatta's and Odinga's ambitions...
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Kenyan politics will continue to be riven by conflicting ethnic loyalties and the referendum itself will create divisions on new ethnic lines in particular isolating deputy president William Ruto and the communities loyal to him – most of the Kalenjin many Kikuyu and the Turkana (AC Vol 61 No 19 Keeping up with the Kenyattas)...
Gicheru who until 2013 ran a private law practice in Eldoret is accused of being the manager of a scheme to corrupt ICC prosecution witnesses in the cases of Deputy President William Ruto and radio presenter Joshua arap Sang (AC Vol 51 No 25 Ocampo names six suspects)...
But the BBI's noisy cheerleaders – from Kenyatta's faction of the Jubilee party and Odinga's Orange Democratic Movement – have succeeded only in further dividing the country by alienating Deputy President William Ruto and his Kalenjin Rift Valley base...
This report is full of issues ' says a lawyer who is a close ally of Deputy President William Ruto referring to the raft of changes in the final BBI report aimed at strengthening the president's powers...
That kind of criticism has encouraged Deputy President William Ruto increasingly marginalised by Kenyatta's allies in the governing Jubilee party to make a concerted bid for the Luo Luhya and Coastal communities all of which feel that they have been neglected by successive governments in Nairobi...
Like most Kalenjin the two politicians resent of the President's treatment of his Deputy William Ruto (a Kalenjin) now practically excluded from all aspects of government by a squad of the President's closest advisers led by Jubilee Party deputy chairman David Murathe in alliance with Raila Odinga's key men in the Orange Democratic Movement...