Since they came to power in 2017, Deputy President William Ruto claims that President Uhuru Kenyatta has never discussed any government dockets with him.
DP Ruto disputed reports that President Uhuru Kenyatta assigned half of the government dockets to him during an interactive session at Chatham House in the United Kingdom on Monday.
Ruto’s speech comes just weeks after President Kenyatta made a diametrically opposed declaration about state appointments during his first tenure. President Kenyatta pointed out that government dockets such as the Agriculture ministry were left for DP Ruto to fill during his presentation to Mt Kenya people in Sagana.
The DP’s statement also contradicts President Kenyatta’s claims that he and President Kenyatta divided the government equally, with his friends holding key government portfolios including the Ministry of Agriculture, Ministry of Labour, and the National Treasury, among others.
Despite the fact that they both played a role in the construction of the Jubilee administration, Ruto has come out to refute the allegations, stating that the president made all government appointments.
President Kenyatta is in charge of all government matters, including Parliamentary Group Meetings, according to Ruto.
“In our first term, we ran a coalition government but I can tell you, there was no single day I held a single Parliamentary Group meeting without the President. We had one PG, one government, one programme and everything was all clear,” Ruto said.
“There were no dockets given to me. I did not appoint any minister anywhere within the government. Everyone was appointed by the President,” he added.
Ruto further alleged that in their second term, President Uhuru forced him out of the cabinet, despite his willingness to cooperate with him to fulfill their commitments to Kenyans.
The DP stated that his boss pushed him out of the cabinet because he (Uhuru) didn’t want him to be part of his legacy as Kenya’s fourth President.
“In the second 2nd term, the president told me that he wanted to do things differently and he did not want the government to be run as UhuRuto. He wanted his legacy as alone as the fourth president of Kenya,” he said
