Elgeyo Marakwet Senator Hon. Kipchumba Murkomen is blaming President Uhuru Kenyatta for Jubilee’s dismal performance in it’s second and final with claims that the president concentrated in torturing his deputy, Dr. William Ruto, and not serving Kenyans.
Murkomen said that President Kenyatta broke all the bridges he built in his first term when he worked closely with Ruto but failed terribly in his second term when he pushed his deputy away to work with Opposition Chief Raila Odinga.
“We will be lying to the public if we credit President Uhuru Kenyatta for building bridges in our country. He spent the last four years breaking every bridge he made. There is no such a thing as building bridges when torturing, harassing and punishing your deputy,” Murkomen said.
The DP allied politician was responding to Homa Bay Senator Moses Kajwang’, a vocal Uhuru sycophant who was praising the president for building bridges in his ten year tenure.
“Uhuru has been good at building bridges. In 2013, no one thought Uhuru and Ruto would work together and in 2018, a handshake between him and Raila happened. I fail to understand why it has been demonized,” Kawang’ said.
Uhuru betrayed DP Ruto on March 2018 when he bagged Odinga through a handshake deal and pushed Ruto to the periphery of the Jubilee administration and politically targeted his affiliates with graft cases.
The chaotic Odinga was Kenyatta’s bitter rival whom Ruto aided him to defeat in 2013 and in two elections in 2017. Raila who has never conceded after losing all the five previous polls was by default set to face off with DP in this year’s elections.
But Kenyatta chose his enemy over his friend, a rugged betrayal that paints politics as a game of deception or use and dump. Their rivalry created serious divisions in government and all houses from Senate to the National and County assemblies, where politicians took sides over the issue.
Murkomen further pointed that President Kenyatta who is now campaigning for Mr. Odinga is also using the Kenya Revenue Authorities (KRA) to freeze accounts belonging to politicians allied to the Deputy President.
On top of targeting Ruto allies with graft cases, the president also uprooted all politicians allied to deputy president from house leadership with Senator Kindiki Kithure being removed from the Deputy Speaker position, Murkomen from the Leader of the Majority Party position and Nakuru Senator Susan Kihika from the Majority Whip position.
“ Uhuru has gone public and told the people of Kenya that he only shook hands with Raila for peace. This means that Raila was the trouble maker and the handshake tames him,” Murkomen added.
