That is more likely than a repeat of the 2018 'handshake' between Odinga and President Uhuru Kenyatta...
Ruto contends – with some justification – that he inherited a rotten set of public finances from Uhuru Kenyatta's government in August including billions of dollars of loan-financed infrastructure spending the most notorious being the China-financed Standard Gauge Railway (AC Vol 64 No 7 Ruto gets the freight train blues)...
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Ruto insists there will be no repeat of the 'handshake' deal of March 2018 between Odinga and his predecessor Uhuru Kenyatta that brought Odinga into government after the disputed 2017 elections...
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Initially it seemed that President William Ruto's government would blame the economic costs of the SGR on the profligacy of its predecessor led by Uhuru Kenyatta...
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Ruto also appears to have relented in his vendetta against former President Uhuru Kenyatta's right-hand man former Ministry of Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang'i...
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The UDA is less than two years and was set up as Ruto's personal party after he was forced out of the Jubilee party which he formed with former President Uhuru Kenyatta...
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It had been secured from him by former President Uhuru Kenyatta in 2018 as part of the 'handshake' deal that marginalised then Deputy President William Ruto and set the scene for Odinga's unsuccessful bid for the presidency in August 2022 (AC Vol 59 No 6 Raila beats rivals to a new deal)...
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Ruto and his predecessor Uhuru Kenyatta hired the disgraced data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica (CA)/Strategic Communication Laboratories (SCL) ahead of the 2013 and 2017 elections with a team that included former Brexit party politician Alexandra Phillips now a television presenter with GB News (AC Vol 58 No 17 New elections old battles & Vol 60 No 15 Spinner caught in web)...
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A late night police raid at the home of Fred Matiang'i former Cabinet Secretary in the Interior Ministry on 8 Feburary is the latest and highest profile case of the new government's campaign against allies of former President Uhuru Kenyatta...
Matiang'i had been tipped by some as a successor to Uhuru Kenyatta...
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President Ruto claims that ex-President Uhuru Kenyatta's administration was planning to hijack and kill Chebukati but is yet to provide evidence or announced an investigation into the matter...
