RUTO’S SPEECH DURING SIMEON NYACHAE’S BURIAL

Deputy President William Ruto has recalled how he fell victim to the late Simeon Nyachae’s disciplinary ways.

As strict as he was, Ruto says the former Cabinet Minister occasionally took out the cane and “straightened people.”

The DP told mourners who had gathered at Gusii Stadium, in Kisii County, to pay their last respects to the late Nyachae, that he was among those that happened to be “beneficiaries of Mzee Nyachae’s cane.”

“Apart from the blows and the other measures that were meted on his immediate family, those of us in politics, he also did not spare us,” he confessed, adding that despite his strictness, Nyachae was a loving and forgiving father to many.

He recalled when together with Omingo Magara, they faced Nyachae’s wrath when the duo apparently misbehaved in Nyamarambe in Kisii County.      

“Michael, (Nyachae’s son), is actually the person Mzee sent to collect the cane,” he added.

The DP further described Nyachae as a great patriotic Kenyan, consummate administrator and a great businessman.

“With a humble posho mill and a small bakery he built a huge business empire that not only created opportunity, it created wealth and jobs. That is the lesson that mzee gives to us as the people of Kenya,” he said.

By Standard Digital

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