President William Ruto has urged his predecessor Uhuru Kenyatta to stop sabotaging the Government of Kenya. The President told the retired leader that it is unpresidential for a former head of State to undermine the Government that he once led, saying that is the role of a rebel leader like Ugandan Joseph Kony. Kony is a fugitive Ugandan warlord and founder of the Lord’s Resistance Army, a rebel group notorious for decades of extreme violence and human rights abuses. The President also hit out at Mr Kenyatta for funding the opposition to wreck his Government Saying he is not seeking the support of the former President even though he supported him in four elections – in 2002, 2013 and 2017 twice – President Ruto said Mr Kenyatta should stop frustrating the Government’s efforts to transform Kenya. Speaking at Sindo in Suba South Constituency, Homa Bay County, on Thursday, the final day of his development tour of Nyanza, he pointed out that the economy the former President “left in tatters” has been now stabilised. “You left the economy in tatters, but we have stabilised it,” the President said. He told Mr Kenyatta that he failed to deliver on roads, healthcare, affordable housing and education while in Government, but was now using political allies to oppose the same programmes President Ruto’s administration is implementing effectively. “The housing programme that you failed to...
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