Deputy President William Ruto on Saturday said no amount of threats will distract his political ambition.
Ruto said while hitting back at the DCI said if the late Sergent Kipyegon Kenei was killed to threaten him, he will not bow down or give up.
Speaking during the burial service of Kenei at his Chemasis village, Nakuru Ruto said it was unfortunate instead of DCI looking for the killers, they have shifted the focus to him.
“I know there is a bigger scheme to destroy my office and ensure I do not go anywhere. The schemers are trying to threaten, undermine and demean my office in a bid to stop me, they may have the system but I have God,” an agitated DP said.
He said Kenei’s blood will not go scotfree but will haunt his killers until they are punished.
The DCI should look for the truth and leave politics out of the equation. They are being used to undermine me. Some are bragging in day broad light of how Ruto will not be there in 2022 and still walking around," he said.
According to Ruto, Kenei was killed for political reasons mainly to spark a conflict between him and his community.
“Wale wanaopanga hii njama eti wanipiganishe mimi na jamii yangu, shauri yao (those who are behind all these are planning to cause conflict between me and my community),” Ruto said.
He said it has come to a point that his office can be used to strike fake deals yet his office has no relationship with DoD.
“I want to tell them, maybe you will have to kill me but nothing will stop me, I will not look back or give up,” Ruto said.
Ruto said he is aware of a bigger scheme to pin him down but affirmed his readiness.
“If you killed Kenei to threaten me, that plan will fail. I am not mad, I am th deputy president and I know what I am saying. I know what has been planned and I am ready,” he said.
The DP said Kenei was an asset to his office and for the whole time he has served there, he displayed commendable character.
He said after Echesa and his accomplice were arrested, he held a meeting with Kenei and three other officers and they briefed him of what had transpired on that day.
Ruto said Kenei allowed Echesa and his team at the office because he received a call indicating that they had an appointment.
On Thursday, Ruto came to the office and called for another meeting to be briefed on the progress of the case only for them to realise Kenei had not been seen.
“I reached out to people who knew him and asked them to find his family,” he said.
Ruto said the Sh39.5 billion fake military arms deal has smeared mud on his reputation.
He said it is evident that a lot of people are fighting him politically and would go any extra’s to involve him in absurd things.
They say that there was a “liaison” between the killers and an employee of a telco that led to the deletion of data from his phone. I would assume it meant his phone data plus call and text records were erased. Now, there are regulatory requirements regarding transmission and storage of data telcos have to meet; why arent the people who performed those actions being apprehended and taken to court. Why cant we have a court order for the release of that information to DCI failing which those responsible for tampering with such sensitive data be charged.
In such a sensitive matter It cannot be enough to say data was deleted and leave it at that.
Precisely. Which raises the question; who is this that is so powerful that they can infiltrate key security installations and use them to perpetrate and cover up murders by destroying key evidence, no questions asked. Thinking about this takes my suspicion in a direction i did not anticipate.
The DP is that powerful though the orchestra maestros of the njama he claims are powerful as well, I’ll hold my conclusions until more information if any sees the light
If the people who wanted to tarnish Ruto’s name killed Kenei, why would they delete phone records? This guy, being head of DP’s security at his office, would have been in constant communication with Ruto especially when people show up to hold a meeting in his offices. Those records would have given Rutos detractors an opportunity to fix ruto. So why delete them?
I dont understand what you are trying to say here, the thing is the data was more beneficial to whoever would want to tarnish Ruto’s name, the data would implicate Ruto’s name.
Dude, you have the brain do some bits of thingking. Assuming Kenei was in communication with either party who is set to benefit from his death??! It cant be DCI because they would need any data they’d get from his or better yet use him as a mole