Haunted by old cases Once the coalition government was formed in June 2008 the Embassy named the cabinet ministers it thought corrupt: George Saitoti (Goldenberg) Kiraitu Murungi (Anglo Leasing) Frederick Omulo Gumo (acquiring up to US$10 million of stolen government property) William Ruto (illegal acquisition of land) Sally Kosgei (selling land owned by Kenya Railways); Henry Kosgey (defrauding the Kenya National Reassurance Company) Kipkalya Kones (kickbacks on road building); and John Haroun Mwau (reputed drug trafficking)...
For William Ruto the accusations are particularly important as he wants to stand for the presidency next year and is one of the six facing political violence charges at the ICC...
Benedict said his sources told him: ‘Cabinet Ministers William Ruto and Uhuru Kenyatta are directing a campaign of intimidation against potential witnesses...
Accused are Deputy Premier and Finance Minister Uhuru Kenyatta of President Mwai Kibaki’s Party of National Unity (PNU); Francis Muthaura of the Orange Democratic Movement head of the civil service Chairman of the National Security Advisory Committee and confidant of Kibaki; Major General Mohammed Hussein Ali former Police Commissioner; William Ruto (ODM) formerly Minister of Agriculture and of Higher Education; Henry Kosgey (ODM) ex-Industrialisation Minister; and Joshua arap Sang a Kalenjin-language radio broadcaster...
Another two are former allies of Odinga’s – William Ruto and Henry Kosgey (both of whom face separate corruption cases)...
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- AFRICAN UNION
Inconvenient indictments Two accused KKK leaders want to be candidates - the PNU's Kikuyu Finance Minister Uhuru Kenyatta and the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM)'s point-man in the Rift Valley William Ruto...
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...