How Ruto’s Tanga Tanga Movement is Propelling Him to Statehouse

Will William Ruto be Kenya’s next President? This is the question that many of the DP’s supporters keep asking even as the race for the Country’s top seat look’s to gain momentum with each passing day.

The DP on the other hand has continued to play his cards despite the apparent growing opposition that keeps coming against him. The DP has continued to transverse various parts of the country including opposition strongholds launching development projects and pushing his 2022 agenda while at it.

It will be remembered that on May 31 this year,President Kenyatta told his audience at a rally in Nairobi, “hii kijana anaitwa Ruto unajua kila wikendi anatangatanga kila pahali. Atakuwa anapitia hizi machochoro. Akiona kitu inaenda konakona mmwambie (This young man called Ruto likes roaming everywhere every weekend. He will be passing through these routes. If he sees anything that’s not going well, alert him).

While some viewed the President’s comments as demeaning to his deputy, the man who was targeted took it in his stride and at the next public function in Meru county, even poked fun at the President’s remarks: “Ile kazi umenipatia juzi ya kutangatanga vichochoroni nikiangalia shida za wananchi, nataka kukupatia ripoti (Going by the assignment you recently gave me of roaming around the countryside to find out the problems of our citizens, I wish to report back to you today)”.

And although the President has repeatedly dissuaded politicians against engaging in premature campaigns, his own deputy remains culprit number one.

But fashioning himself as the President’s “mtu ya mkono” (messenger or operative), the DP has found a way around this gag, by traversing the country “to initiate and inspect development projects”.

It has been alleged that members of the “tangatanga” squad are paid hefty allowances for accompanying the DP.

Only recently a video clip of one of the DP’s aides, Farouk Kibet, and a first-term MP allegedly fighting over “tangatanga” allowances surfaced in social media.

Ford-Kenya’s deputy party leader, Dr Bonny Khalwale partly attributes the DP’s determination and never-say-die attitude as reasons that have endeared him and other politicians to the DP.

In fact Khalwale and most politicians backing Ruto’s bid are not voicing his positive attributes, but rather they are throwing in the towel in submission because they consider him unstoppable.

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