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2027 conspiracy: Will national security be sacrificed as Ruto faces North in vote hunt?

President William Ruto addressing Wananchi during the laying of the foundation stone for the Isiolo County Aggregation and Industrial Park and addressed residents of Isiolo Town on February 07, 2025. [PSC]

As President William Ruto ran across North Eastern Kenya in the ended week, questions lingered on population issues, altruism, the 2027 presidential election, and Somali nationalism in Kenya, and in the greater Somali community in Eastern Africa.

Was the tour about redressing historical injustices against the Somali of Kenya or did it seek to open the floodgates for foreigners to shoo up Ruto's electoral numbers? Was it Dr Ruto's answer to a wider Kenyan nation where he is steadily becoming unpopular? Why was the President often erupting into violent language?

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