They have recently been joined by the Orange Democratic Movement's (ODM) Minister of Agriculture William Ruto who had earlier disagreed with Odinga and favoured referral to the ICC when there was little prospect of a Hague trial...
Already the ODM is split between Prime Minister Odinga and William Ruto who claims that Odinga has abandoned his Rift Valley base...
Henry Okah leader of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta; Ufot Ekaette Minister of the Niger Delta; William Ruto Minister of Agriculture Kenya; Gill Marcus newly-appointed Reserve Bank Governor South Africa...
The 'untouchables' alliance - not represented in Geneva - groups Finance Minister Uhuru Kenyatta (marshalling a substantial Kikuyu constituency) and Agriculture Minister William Ruto (making a strong pitch for the leadership of the Kalenjin in the Rift Valley that saw some of the worst of the political violence last year)...
The Agriculture Ministry run by ODM's William Ruto has shocked and puzzled Kenyans most...
Vol 50 No 1 |
- EAST AFRICA
Ready-made facilities for a long hearing by the International Court are available in Arusha Tanzania which could hold Uhuru Kenyatta William Ruto or Mary Wambui wa Mwai in suitable comfort...
Vol 49 No 25 |
- KENYA
- ANALYSIS
Significantly Odinga and his lieutenants William Samoei Ruto and Musalia Mudavadi differed publicly on how to tackle the rise in maize flour prices...
Yet Odinga’s position puts him at odds with his erstwhile lieutenant William Ruto Agriculture Minister and de facto leader of the Kalenjin confederacy of eight ethnic groups...
This accusation points at William Ruto the Kalenjin leader and at Prime Minister Odinga's ODM...
William Ruto the putative Kalenjin leader and Raila Odinga's most important ally in the Rift Valley has remained generally silent on the matter but is likely to leverage Kalenjin discontent to shore up his position in the party...
At Mudavadi's recent homecoming party in his Sabatia constituency William Ruto hinted that he was more interested in becoming prime minister in a future ODM government...
Perpetrators The KNCHR's list of 'alleged perpetrators' includes six cabinet ministers: Uhuru Kenyatta from President Mwai Kibaki's Party of National Unity Sally Kosgei Henry Kosgey William Ruto Najib Balala and the late Kipkalya Kones from Prime Minister Raila Odinga's Orange Democratic Movement...
For example it reports that Agriculture Minister William Ruto (MP for Eldoret North) held a meeting in August 2007 with other senior ODM leaders in Kipkelion near Kericho which included the late Lorna Laboso (MP for Sotik) the late Kipkalya Kones (MP for Bomet and a Minister) and Franklin Bett (MP for Bureti)...
ODM Secretary General William Ruto boxed into the burdensome Agriculture Ministry has made overtures to his former political buddy Kenyatta as his lieutenants criticise Odinga...