William Samoei arap Ruto

They are backed by Deputy President William Ruto who has called for a fresh audit of both national and county government accounts...

Leading dissent within the URP are Bomet Governor Isaac Ruto (no relation to William Ruto) and Baringo Senator Gideon Moi youngest son of former President Daniel arap Moi who have demanded that the Deputy President challenge Kenyatta for the top job in 2017...

Meanwhile the trial of Kenyatta's deputy William Ruto and Joshua Arap Sang for crimes against humanity during the 2007-2008 post-election violence in Kenya continues...

Kenyatta and his deputy William Ruto were both indicted in 2011 accused of involvement in the 2007-8 election violence by the International Criminal Court in the Hague for crimes against humanity two years before they were elected in March 2013...

Either way no pundit in Kenya really believes that the government has turned over a new leaf against corruption and Kenyatta's coalition partners have bitterly pointed out that the list is largely peopled by individuals connected to Deputy President William Ruto...

It will likely become a force to be reckoned with if William Ruto's woes persist and the Kalenjin politicians begin considering their options...

Kenyatta and deputy president William Ruto formed JAP as a new unitary party to fight the 2017 election...

Some of the evidence is identical to that against William Ruto and Joshua arap Sang whose trial continues...

The mutilated corpse of Yebei whose role in the trial of Vice-President William Ruto and Joshua arap Sang at the International Criminal Court is disputed was discovered in the Eldoret area on 2 January six days after his reported abduction...

Yebei was described once as a prosecution and then as a defence witness in the trial of Vice-President William Ruto and the radio DJ Joshua arap Sang for crimes against humanity in the post-election violence of 2007-08 at the International Criminal Court in the Hague (AC Vol 56 No 1 Economy up security down)...

The grisly image of the decomposing and mutilated body of Meshack Yebei a witness in Deputy President William Ruto's case at the International Criminal Court will keep this issue at the top of the political agenda in 2015...

Squabbling between cabinet secretaries and the heads of ministries has produced a logjam over budgets with Kenyatta and his deputy William Ruto constantly intervening to make the system function...

For Deputy President William Ruto this was a plum appointment...