Ruto Finally Responds to Uhuru

President William Ruto on Saturday, July 22, reaffirmed his commitment to protecting Kenyans after being criticised by his predecessor Uhuru Kenyatta over the raid staged at his son’s house.

Speaking in Kisii County where he launched various initiatives, Ruto fired back at Uhuru maintaining that his responsibility to protect all Kenyans overrides his predecessor’s duty to protect his family.

The Head of State also sustained the argument that Uhuru is funding Azimio demonstrations called for by Azimio leader Raila Odinga.

Ruto firmly rejected Uhuru’s attempts to reassert authority over the Jubilee Party, emphasizing that he, too, played a significant role as one of its founding members. He remained resolute in his commitment to collaborate with the faction led by East Africa Legistlative Assembly (EALA) MP Kanini Kega and former Murang’a Woman Representative Sabina Chege.https://www.youtube.com/embed/4J09sAI1HxA

“Just the same way you go out of your way to protect your children and provide for them, I also have a responsibility of protecting the children of the rest of Kenyans” Ruto stated.

“You love your children so much that you send them to Arusha, Europe and other places, yet you make the children of other people carry stones and destroy property,” he added.

During his speech, Ruto also lamented that the protests were portraying Kenya in bad light citing an earlier conversation Wang Yi, a high-level Chinese diplomat who expressed concerns over the direction the country is taking.

“Now the Chinese diplomat is asking me how they can continue partnering with us because we are  destroying roads and the Nairobi Expressway 

which they have built.

“If somebody asks you such a question, what will you say?” he posed.

Ruto’s remarks came one day after Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) officers raided Uhuru’s eldest son home in Karen. The move attracted the wrath of the former president who quickly rushed to the residence and dared his successor  

to stop intimidating his family and face him directly.

“Come for me. What does my mother have to do with anything? What does my son have to do with anything?” he wondered.

Moments later, Interior Cabinet Secretary Kithure Kindiki issued a statement confirming that the government had indeed raided a few houses in Karen designed at clamping down on the misuse of weapons during the ongoing anti-government demonstrations.