Death of Ruto’s Political Strategists Reveal Kenyan Politicians Love For Foreign Brains

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Getting a Political seat is not an easy task. Various strategies that revolve from funding to branding to ideological presentations have to be made.

These strategies need a brilliant mind for them to be properly laid out and later executed.

It is for this reason that a number of Kenyan Politicians have lately been going for foreign political strategists whenever the elections come knocking.

The death of William Ruto’s Four American Political Strategists in Turkana alongside his pilot Captain Mario in a Helicopter crash has revealed just how the love for foreign Political strategists and advisors is huge.

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The four US nationals were Kyle John Forti, Anders Jesiah Burke, Brandon Hower Stapper and David Mark Baker.

But Why do Kenyan Politicians go for them?

According to renowned pollster Tom Wolf, the major reason one would go for a foreign political strategist is because of Confidentiality.

“One advantage is that there is less anxiety about foreigners being ‘disloyal’. When you are hiring one, you get guarantees that all they learn will be kept confidential. That might be hard locally since the homegrown experts have their relatives and friends who they can easily talk to, in contrast with foreigners who are easy to keep in a bubble,” he said.

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Well, it will be remembered that 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.

“Then we’d write all the speeches and we’d stage the whole thing – so just about every element of his campaign,” Turnbull added.

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Opposition chief Raila Odinga has also used foreign firms to boost his presidential campaigns.

In 2017, Raila hired a political consulting firm, Aristototle Inc, but its directors were hurriedly deported by Jubilee mandarins, in what is believed to have scuttled the ODM leaders’ parallel tallying plans.

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