William Ruto Defined Rather harshly

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This hurts. Looks like a hatchet job paid for by GEMA. May be Kiunjuri
The Deputy President William Ruto's utterances might cost Jubilee party
Osano Cavine
Sun 29th Jan 2017 08:09:41am

The ongoing voter registration has put the country into an early election mood with most of the leaders calling it a semi-election.This is something that could be considered a pre-determinant for the results of the upcoming August elections. The voter mobilization exercise has seen politicians criss-cross the country in attempts to mobilize their supporters to come up in large numbers to register as voters.

Among the leaders who have taken this initiative is the Deputy President William Ruto, who contrary to his boss, President Uhuru Kenyatta, has tried to visit some of the areas perceived to be the opposition strongholds. This has however not been met with ululations from women as it has always been the norm during the fundraisings that William Ruto has been doing in the recent past.

 Mixed feelings have marred the DP's recent visits to Kajiado, Nyamira, and Transnzoia. Perhaps, the residents of these areas are sending a very clear message that there could be a very big difference between Harambee and politics. Quite unfortunately for The Dp and his Jubilee loyalists, in Kenya, once you've fundraised you are out of business, you can only move elsewhere. If only Ruto could convince Western Kenya block and the Maa community to vote for Jubilee because of fundraisings and ghost projects, he would have certainly done that.

He would have used that to convince the disgruntled people of Bungoma that Harambees can build them; that fundraising of 1 million for a church in a village in Bungoma county can translate to votes in Bungoma town... but that is yet to happen.

The Deputy President has been known to be the mouthpiece of Jubilee. This gentleman seems to know all the projects initiated by the government in every part of this country. He has information on all roads, their lengths when they will be initiated and their completion dates, information that at times the Cabinet Secretaries and PSs are not privy to. In other words, some of them are just non-existent.

So what makes the DP, a once darling of a section of Kenyans a face of the Jubilee lies? Some say he likes taking credit, which as he does, he picks faults. He attacks viciously without caring where the blow lands... it doesn't matter if the blow bounces back to his groin. He insults other leaders without caring whether they have a following or not.

Many who differed with him disclose that the DP has an ego, an ego that is so rough that massaging it may sometimes call for a professional Spa artist with at least a doctorate degree in Body and Ego Management.

According to many, the DP has a loose tongue ,he has joined the league of famous tongue sportsmen such as Moses Kuria Miguna Miguna and Aden Duale, individuals who have drawn territorial boundaries, developed nausea among communities for them and have positioned themselves within a section of Kenya and who seem to be very comfortable within their small square of friends in government. The best thing William Ruto should have done is first to recognize that he is The Deputy President of the Republic of Kenya, a position is that is not a calling, but a duty that one must have sought.

 In one way or another, the office of the Deputy President should be a unifying factor itself. But just how does the office of the DP become a unifying factor when it is actually ruled by top-notch dis-integrity and negative tongue lashings against other leaders who have been elected into office, whether in opposition or government.

The Deputy President is intolerable, he is hard to listen to. A psychologist like me can call him pathetic, with all due respect, even though some no longer see the value of offering the same respect being pronounced here.

 The Deputy President must be wary that as Kenyans approach elections, any leader seeking an elective post will be held accountable for his/her past actions. No one will hold you accountable to your future actions... the 'TU'... tutafanya, tumetenga, tutaunganisha, tutajenga reli na barabara. That narrative is gone. He must convince Kenyans that there is some work the government has done beyond SGR, barabara kilomita elfu mbili and free maternity.

In a country where corruption scandals outnumber the number of successful projects initiated by the government, don't you think one should hold his tongue? Are people not watching?

However bitter it might be to swallow, incompetence lies, and arrogance must always have a crossing line, and citizens who are the same voters will always wait at the crossline to give you a humbling justice.