A section of Nakuru residents who are angry with Deputy President William Ruto kicked out Jubilee officials on a mission to publicise the party’s event slated for Saturday.
The team which was curtain raising for the official opening of a JP office in Kuresoi South were forced to abort their mission after angry residents turned against them.
The residents of Keringet chased away the officers who had arrived at the area in Jubilee branded cars, saying they don’t want to hear anything to do with the DP.
They accused Ruto of punishing them by starving the area of development on grounds that area MP Zakayo Cheruiyot walked out of the DP’s camp.
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Angry locals asked the team leader to go away since they are not interested in Jubilee Party affairs, some of them threatening to defect to CCM or Cord.
The crowd chanted: “Go away. Go away. Ruto has neglected us,”
“We will look foolish to support Jubilee yet we are suffering. Go and tell those who sent you that we are not with them,” the locals told the JP members.
“President Uhuru Kenyatta and Ruto have been visiting other constituencies but have ignored us,” one of the youths said, further accusing Ruto of acting immaturely in the face of their differences with Cheruiyot.
The area MP is among leaders who rebelled against the DP at the height of calls that the Jubilee affiliate parties merge into one outfit ahead of the 2017 polls.
The locals said they cannot be slaves in their own country, further citing that they have not benefited from the national cake because of frosty relationship between DP Ruto and Cheruiyot.
