President William Ruto has described former President Uhuru Kenyatta as the most ungrateful and deceitful human being he has ever met. He urged to retire honourably and stop the continuing betrayal and misuse of political leaders. The President said although he supported Mr Kenyatta’s presidential bids four times – 2002, 2013 and twice in 2017 – Mr Kenyatta chose to repay him with betrayal. He said Kenyatta did not support his presidential bid in 2022 and is actively campaigning against him ahead of the 2027 elections. He called out him out, too, for “conning the late former Prime Minister Raila Odinga, Kalonzo Musyoka and Fred Matiang’i”, whom he had brought back from abroad. “You are the most ungrateful person I have met. You are the most deceitful character I have met,” he said. Speaking during a development tour of Nandi and Uasin Gishu counties on Monday, the President warned opposition leaders to be wary of Mr Kenyatta’s deceit. He was accompanied by Cabinet Secretaries Kipchumba Murkomen (Interior) and Opiyo Wandayi (Energy), Governors Stephen Sang (Nandi) and Jonathan Bii (Uasin Gishu) and many MPs, among other leaders. President Ruto explained to his predecessor that he had fixed the mess the former President left behind, citing the poorly implemented Competency-Based Education, which he has since reformed by hiring teachers, fixing the funding model and streamlining t...
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