The death of William Ruto’s American Political Strategists in a Helicopter Crash has once again put the Deputy President in the spotlight with the incident showing just how serious the DP is with the 2022 succession race as he aims to take over from President Uhuru Kenyatta.
Ruto’s Four American Political Strategists, alongside pilot Mario Magonga who frequently flew the DP, died near Lobolo in Central Island National Park, Turkana, at dusk, on March 3.
The four were veteran political consultants alleged to have been flown to Kenya to begin setting up Deputy President William Ruto’s 2022 presidential campaign.
Sources within the police have revealed that the American strategists had begun laying out an elaborate campaign game plan for Ruto.
“We have so far established that some of the victims of the crash were working for the DP. However, the circumstances under which the chopper crashed are under investigations,” a senior officer familiar with the probe told a Local daily.
In 2013 and 2017 Uhuru used Cambridge Analytica, a US data mining company accused globally of manipulating elections.
One of its executives was taped saying that they ran “just about every element” of Uhuru’s campaign in 2013 and 2017.
“We have rebranded the entire party twice, written their manifesto, done two rounds of 50,000 (participant) surveys,” Mark Turnbull, MD of Cambridge Analytica, was covertly filmed as saying by UK broadcaster Channel 4.
The four US nationals were Kyle John Forti, Anders Jesiah Burke, Brandon Hower Stapper and David Mark Baker.