Saboti Member of Parliament, Caleb Amisi has sensationally claimed that Deputy President William Ruto does not any friends among sitting presidents in Africa like ODM leader raila Odinga.
Speaking in Vihiga County on Monday, February 21, during the Azimio la Umoja gathering, Amisi said it was worrying that DP Ruto has been in power for almost 10 years without establishing a working relationship with any African president.
According to the Saboti lawmaker, Raila Odinga has established friendships with sitting presidents in a number of countries, unlike DP Ruto.
“You are a deputy president of the Republic of Kenya, and you have no single sitting president as a friend, something must be wrong,” Amisi noted.
On the other hand, the lawmaker revealed that the ODM leader has already established friendships with a number of presidents including the late and current Tanzania presidents, presidents of South Africa, Togo, Burundi, Malawi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Zambia, Botswana, Ethiopia, Nigeria, and Ghana.
“Last week you saw Raila with the Prime Minister of India, I want to ask you, is there any current sitting president anywhere in the world who is a friend to Ruto?” Amisi posed as the crowd answered no.
“Raila is to yet to be the president and he is a phone call away to 20 presidents, …yet you, you want to be the president and you boast of Dismas Barasa and Oscar Sudi as your friend,” Amisi added.
According to the ODM MP, one cannot consider himself to have the capacity to lead a nation without having international friends.
But it’s good to point out that DP Ruto has been thought to be a close associate of Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni.
On a number of occasions, President Museveni has hosted Ruto in Uganda in fact, DP Ruto was last year stopped from flying to Uganda under unclear circumstances.
The sentiments by Amisi come on the backdrop of diplomatic issues surrounding DP Ruto’s remarks on DRC where he said Congo does not have a cow.
