William Samoei arap Ruto

Yet the event was conspicuous by the absence of either President Uhuru Kenyatta or his deputy William Ruto...

Bomet Governor Isaac Ruto (no relation to Vice President William Ruto) who sees himself as a potential presidential candidate and has become one of Kenya's leading political personalities described Uhuru's threats as 'part of the propaganda against devolution' (AC Vol 57 No 6 Bye-election fever)...

Certainly independent monitors and opposition politicians were convinced that these technological failures were contrived by the well-financed Jubilee coalition of President Uhuru Kenyatta and William Ruto and their allies in the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (AC Vol 54 No 6 Credibility of the IEBC under fire)...

The assessment by three judges at the International Criminal Court on 5 April that the prosecution's evidence against William Ruto Kenya's Deputy President and Joshua arap Sang a prominent Kalenjin radio announcer was too weak to sustain a case points to critical failures in the court's investigative procedures and its witness protection scheme...

Two bye-elections on 7 March were make-or-break events for two big political leaders: Raila Amolo Odinga of the opposition Coalition for Reform and Democracy and Deputy President William Samoei arap Ruto of the Jubilee Alliance Party...

It did not work out like that however and William Ruto remains the Kalenjin supremo...

Both seats had fallen vacant because of November's cabinet reshuffle that saw Kericho Senator Charles Cheruiyot Keter – a strong William Ruto supporter – elevated to head the Energy Ministry while the Malindi member of parliament Dan Kazungu of CORD crossed over to Jubilee to be rewarded with the position of Mining Minister in the building where he'd previously been Chief Secretary...

If William Ruto came out of Kericho smiling Malindi marked a defeat for Uhuru Kenyatta's Coast offensive which was supposed to succeed because it was led by local CORD legislators who have crossed to Jubilee...

William Ruto still nervous about the outcome of his trial at the International Criminal Court knows that he has not seen the last of the efforts by the Mois and their allies to knock him off his Jubilee perch (AC Vol 56 No 3 What the prosecutor saw)...

The Electoral Commission was 'totally compromised and complacent to save face for some senior politician in the region' said KANU in an obvious reference to Vice-President William Ruto who campaigned for Cheruiyot...

That is perhaps why Deputy President William Ruto is keen to host the secretariat of the three existing regional trade blocs: Comesa the EAC and SADC...

Jubilee political work in the region has been left to Deputy President William Ruto who hopes the region will support his presidential candidacy in 2022 provided of course he escapes conviction for crimes against humanity at the International Criminal Court at The Hague...

In the 2014/15 financial year the Presidency which combines the offices of Kenyatta and his deputy William Samoei arap Ruto spent 1...

He lobbies hard against the Court's attempts to prosecute Kenyatta and his Deputy President William Ruto for election violence in 2007-08 (AC Vol 56 No 17 ICC aims at Kenya)...

In Kenyan social media the debate is taking on the ugly tone of the sort of argument witnessed between Kikuyu and Western Kenya before the violent clashes after the general elections of 2007 clashes which took Uhuru and Vice-President William Ruto to the International Criminal Court...

They are backed by Deputy President William Ruto who has called for a fresh audit of both national and county government accounts...

Leading dissent within the URP are Bomet Governor Isaac Ruto (no relation to William Ruto) and Baringo Senator Gideon Moi youngest son of former President Daniel arap Moi who have demanded that the Deputy President challenge Kenyatta for the top job in 2017...