Deputy president William Ruto has now claimed that his life has been exposed to danger after interior cabinet secretary Dr. Fred Matiang’i revealed about is 257 security officers.
Ruto spoke through his communication team just a few hours after CS Matiang’i appeared before National Assembly’s Security Committee on Wednesday.
While there, the interior cabinet secretary confessed that William Ruto is the most guarded second in command in Kenya’s history compared to his predecessors like Kalonzo Musyoka, the late George Saitoti and even former Prime minister Raila Amollo Odinga.
However, this move seems to have annoyed DP Ruto who claimed that Matiang’i was not willing to understand the concerns within his security circle.
According to Ruto’s spokesman Mr. Mugonyi, CS Matiang’i’s revelations before the floor of the House were aimed at humiliating and ridiculing the DP, terming them as abuse of office “to score cheap points.”
Mr. Mugonyi further stated that, matter of factually, some of the properties listed by the Interior boss do not even belong to the DP.
“By singling out the Deputy President and casting adverse attention to the particulars of his security arrangements the Cabinet Secretary discriminated against the Office and the person of the Deputy President, potentially exposing him to further security threats,” stated Mr. Mugonyi.
He added: “In any event, the Deputy President went on record as early as 2018 to announce his readiness to undergo a lifestyle audit per the President’s directive. This false association with strange and fictitious properties is therefore unnecessary and malicious.”
“It is dishonest of Dr Matiang’i to compare offices form an obsolete constitutional and historical era, and which preexisted the Office of Deputy President, when it is elementary that the Office of the Deputy President is established by the 2010 Constitution,” he noted.
“The Deputy President does not deploy security to himself or to anyone else. When he assumed to office in 2013, the National Security Council had already established a security model for the Presidency and constitutional offices. Any change to the arrangement would have been discussed and formally approved at the appropriate level.”
Mr. Mugonyi also accused CS Matiang’i of using the platform provided to him by Parliament to allegedly propagate falsehoods about the DP’s properties and security deployment.
“The Cabinet Secretary desecrated the hallowed precincts of Parliament, exploiting it as a forum to propagate malicious falsehoods and assaulted the dignity of that institution by recklessly publishing inaccurate data purporting to be the property interests and security deployments of the Deputy President. In fact, most of the property listed DO NOT belong to the Deputy President,” he said.
“The Deputy President was not elected in August 2021. He has been serving since 2013. It is deceitful and fraudulent of Dr Matiang’i to wake up today and suddenly realise that the Deputy President’s residence is not a protected area and not entitled to GSU protection.”
He added: “This realisation nine years after the fact, in the context of many other orchestrated political events, schemes and machinations against the Deputy President clearly indicate that Dr Matiang’i was acting in explicit pursuit of a malevolent political agenda.”
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