Newspaper Gives Ruto Total Blackout as He Storms Gideon Moi’s Backyard

On Saturday, Deputy President Wiliam Ruto spent the better part of his day at Baringo county launching different empowerment programmes for Baringo residents.

Deputy President William Ruto at Kabartonjo Primary School, Baringo county on Saturday, November 2, 2019. Photo/Courtesy

Among the development projects taken to the county by Ruto included an empowerment programme for Baringo South Boda Boda Sacco at Marigat Centre, women’s empowerment programme at Kabartonjo Primary grounds in Baringo North, as well as offering various financial supports to small scale businesses in the county.

Despite this, one major newspaper in the country, The Standard newspaper, on Sunday, completely omitted Ruto’s visit to Baringo county which is also Kanu chairman Gideon Moi’s backyard.

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The DP, who was on a tour of Baringo and parts of Nakuru county has not been in good relationship with Baringo Senator due to political supremacies and this could have led to the total blackout Ruto faced from the newspaper which is largely associated with Moi’s family.

Despite being the second most important news maker in the country after President Uhuru Kenyatta, Dr. Ruto was snubbed in all the newspaper’s pages despite strongly weighing in on the country’s current political trends.

In addition, the DP touched on at least one matter of national importance; the Kibra by-election. That is what Standard’s main rivals, Nation and The Star newspapers focused on.

The Nation story, which takes slightly over the top half of page eight had the headline ‘Ruto promises will in Kibra polls as he tells off Raila team’ but for The Standard, the event seemingly didn’t take place.

However, the newspaper did have a story touching on the DP. The newspaper seemed to have focused on another different story ‘Disquiet in Ruto Western camp hurts 2022 politics’ which was viewed as a negative story about the DP.


The supremacy battle between Ruto and  Gideon Moi seems to have degenerated into nasty political warfare with each camp employing dirty tricks against the other to gain control of the vote-rich Rift Valley.

The rivalry is already playing out in media houses, on the floor of both the Senate and the National assembly, in the counties across the Rift Valley and on social media.

 

 

 

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