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Speaking in Mombasa on 14 June he ordered a lifestyle audit of all senior public servants starting with himself and Deputy President William Samoei Ruto...

He has warned Deputy President William Samoei Ruto that the 'handshake' is real and he must stop loitering ('kutanga tanga') in the back alleys campaigning for the presidency in 2022 instead of working on the 'Big Four'...

The ambiguity of the arrangement could also spark fresh rivalries within the government between Odinga Kenyatta and Vice President William Ruto who is already preparing for a barnstorming presidential campaign in 2022...

' Deputy President William Ruto has also ruled out allocating government positions to Nasa (AC Vol 58 No 22 A question of legitimacy)...

Odinga has made some concessions to alliance members but not enough to prevent some disgruntled politicians making overtures to William Ruto about joining his line-up for the 2022 presidential race...

These calls ended when William Ruto became the Deputy President...

In particular any notion of power-sharing is abhorred by Deputy President William Ruto and the Kalenjin wing of Jubilee who see it as an effort by Nasa interlopers to whittle down their role in the current government and thereby obstruct Ruto's accession to the presidency after the 2022 election as promised to him by Kenyatta...

Neither President Uhuru Kenyatta nor Vice-President William Ruto attended the 2016 or 2017 annual devolution conferences...

Nasa wants another election to be held within 90 days but Deputy President William Ruto poured cold water on that prospect on 29 October saying there was no room for discussion of new elections...

This unsurprisingly rankles with Kenyatta and his deputy William Ruto and with their supporters who believe they won the August elections...

The International Criminal Court had also indicted Kenyatta and the KANU and later ODM stalwart William Ruto for crimes against humanity against each other's' communities arising from the 2007-08 violence...