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Deputy President William Ruto speaks during the funeral service the late Richard Kaguchia father to Nyeri county assembly speaker John Kaguchia at Kiuu Primary School in Mukurwe-ini, Nyeri County, September 29, 2021. [Mose Sammy, Standard]
At the height of a charged campaign period, Wiper leader Kalonzo Musyoka once told off a reporter: ‘Your name betrays you.’
Angered by the manner the journalist dug in as he sought an answer to a question, the man from Tseikuru lost his cool. His outburst was a direct sneer at the reporter’s tribe. Its timing, in a mystifying way, compares to Thursday’s tirade by Deputy President William Ruto against ‘biased’ media.
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