The crocodiles craving to swallow Ruto are underneath his bed.

Three Rift Valley MPs have triggered a political storm after publicly claiming Deputy President William Ruto has a 500,000-acre farm in the Republic of Congo.

In a scathing attack on the DP, the rebel Jubilee lawmakers claimed Ruto was positioning himself to be the principal maize supplier to the scandal-ridden National Cereals and Produce Board by discouraging the region from maize farming.

MPs Joshua Kutuny (Cherangany), Alfred Keter (Nandi Hill) and Silas Tiren (Moiben) claimed Ruto has been encouraging farmers to substitute maize farming with avocado and macadamia.

MPs Silas Tiren, Alfred Keter and Joshua Kuttuny address the press after meeting farmers. /COURTESY

“You can’t be telling us to plant avocados, plant macadamia but you are not telling us what happened to maize…Now you have gone even to Congo. You are growing 500,000 acres of maize,” said Keter without producing any evidence to back his claims.

Although they sound as cheap political talk but it could sink Ruto deep in the water. The Deputy President who is focused on the 2022 presidential race should even be more cautious because , the political fight has emanated from his own bedroom.

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Eleven Rift Valley MPs on Monday accused three of their colleagues of being brokers out to ruin DP William Ruto’s presidential ambition in 2022.

They said  Alfred Keter (Nandi Hills), Joshua Kuttuny (Cherangany) and Silas Tiren (Moiben) are cheap, hired mercenaries.

The leaders who spoke to the media at Parliament Buildings said the three have never provided solutions for suffering maize farmers in the North Rift.

“We know political distractors of the Deputy President have failed to contain him. Now they are resorting to cheap tactics. They are roaming about trying to slow him down to create an impression that he is having a problem. That is far from the truth,” Soy MP Caleb Kositany said.

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Kericho senator Aaron Cheruiyot and Endebess MP Robert Pukose (Endebess) lashed out at the three lawmakers for calling for investigations against Ruto over the maize crisis in the country.

They said the crisis can only be solved if the problems are addressed with sobriety.

“We know their masters and we will soon name them. They pretend to be messiahs for the farmers yet they don’t address their issues on the floor of the House,” Cheruiyot said.

This is a clear indication of the political divide currently in the Rift Valley where is viewed as a strong point of Ruto who commands a lot of followers. It will be an uphill task for DP to win the souls of the MPs are walking away from his camp ahead of 2022 presidential bid.

Will he unite them in the long run? Or he will choose to walk the path with the few loyalists?

 

 

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