How Ruto is calculating the path to powerful presidency

In an ideal world, Ruto would implement his programmes without resistance, as he hinted on Tuesday when he directed that a road construction project halted by the courts go on, after ordering his principal secretary to look for funds stating that he would not "wait for these people (the courts)".

And for his remarks, vowing to defy court orders by "corrupt" judicial officers, Ruto has been accused of seeking to establish a dictatorship where his word would be the law.