DP Ruto tells off CORD over calls to resign

Deputy President William Ruto has hit back at the Coalition for Reforms and Democracy (CORD) leaders telling them to leave him alone.

Scoffing at calls to step down from office, Ruto said the Opposition had lost focus and was now busy “distracting the Jubilee government from its development agenda.”

“I’m telling them to leave me alone. Instead of the incessant noises aimed at distracting the government they should say the alternative plans they have for the country,” said Ruto in Tharaka Nithi.

He added: “I don’t know what is wrong with these people, they dream and talk about Ruto all the time when they are sleeping and when they wake up. They should give me a break.”

Accompanied by Senate Majority Leader Kithure Kindiki and five MPs, Ruto told off the Opposition saying the leaders have perfected the art of spreading propaganda and mudslinging. He spoke at Mukuuni Market in Chuka yesterday while handing over a grain storage facility to the Tharaka Nithi County Government. He also addressed a meeting at St Theresa Kathanje Secondary School and later Kathangacini Primary School.

Ruto said the Jubilee government was ready for another face off with the Opposition in the 2017 elections, which he predicted Kenyans would vote overwhelmingly for him and President Uhuru Kenyatta.

Chuka/Igambang’ombe MP Muthomi Njuki dismissed calls for the DP to resign and asked Siaya Senator James Orengo and Machakos Senator Muthama “to stop propaganda against him since we know they are out to soil his name.”

Igembe North MP Joseph M’Eruaki said it was unfair to target Ruto for owning property yet the Constitution had given him the right to own property anywhere.