This is not true. I took keen interest on Ruto I think around 2001 and knew he was going far. I guess Moi knew about it early. Jirongo himself acknowledge that fact while Ruto worked as his spanner boy. Ruto is a gifted politician which self-explanatory considering he is just hit 50 but has done so much despite coming from humble beginnings.
Ruto is not a backstabber...he is a brilliant, hardworking, self-driven,loyal and above all once convinced about an agenda give it all....and he of course is forced to work with lazy bums, idiots and fools (moi,raila,etc)...so Ruto despite giving it all for Moi or Raila....end up becoming frustrated and has to walk out and take the pace himself.
It akin to be Ayana on 5000m heats and having these average althetes just wasting time infront....she just get bored pretty quickly and decided to hit it even if it was meangless. Vivian or Dibaba are excellent althetes but Ayana is on another level. Raila or Moi maybe excellent politician but Ruto is on another level.
Right now Ruto is so bored he has had to do a PHD to keep him busy. Imagine having a lazy fool like Raila as your competitor.
Ruto is the guy who will be in office at 5am in the morning....and would be the last guy to go home at 10pm....he is so driven and focused...it a shame we don't have that many gifted & driven politicians. Most of your average politician or civil servant will be in office around 10 am and would leave at 3pm ...for the rest of the day...if they ever show up. Somebody like Raila show ups 10min before a rally with rehearsed vitendawilis or if it official with same "we are in a cross-road" or some template speech.
If Raila had kept Ruto he would be PORK again...he just got rigged out by Kibaki in 07....and that will remain the big blunder for him. He failed to listen to Ruto (ended up signing a laughable NARA when Kibaki was on the ropes) & keep that rare talent -preferring the non-threatening fatboy madDVD - and Uhuru quickly "bought" Ruto & won pork.
Uhuru without money and kenyatta empire is nothing...he has Ruto to thank for being PORK. Uhuru is so stupid he had accepted to hand over power to MaDVD after kibaki gave him some BS. But Ruto has to remain loyal.Ruto has basically made Uhuru who he is..right from teaching him politics in early 2000s to making him pork in 2013... the good thing with Uhuru...Uhuru is not scared of Ruto freaking talent and hardwork.This country should be gratefully to have a politician of Ruto calibre...watching him on TV interview...you'd mistake him for US or developed world politician..unleashing facts after facts with stats and the whole shebang.. I am told when Hillary Clinton visited kenya and went for some agri function...Ruto unleashed an unprepared speech on agricluture...that had her asking who the fuck was Ruto.
The nearest we've had a gifted politician like Ruto was Tom Mboya - but without the ruthless that define Ruto.
He was among the last lot to drink milk while singing and dancing for Moi.
It is therefore amazing that he is the one who is dismantling the Moi dynasty. Ruto is not known for respecting those who made him. Here are some examples:
1. He cannibalized Moi after Moi had brought him from poverty to power and unlimited wealth
2. He has confessed to being Jirongo's spanner boy. Yet when Jirongo dared him, he showed what he can do. He killed Jirongo's son in law in retribution.
3. Need I explain what he has done to Raila?