Jubilee Party Secretary General Raphael Tuju has revealed that Deputy President William Ruto has been blackmailing President Uhuru Kenyatta.
In a detailed press statement on Monday, Raphael Tuju said that Ruto started his blackmail games in 2013, right after they were elected for their first term in office.
He says Ruto demanded to have half control of the Cabinet and some senior government appointments on the basis of ethnicity.
“From when Deputy President took office in 2013, he demanded proposing half the cabinet, the rain started beating us. His proposals were too biased ethnically and it left the President with no options but to work with the remaining half to accommodate the rest of Kenya,” read part of Jubilee Party Secretary General Raphael Tuju’s statement.
He further explained that DP William Ruto would blackmail Uhuru in their first term, while claiming to have the numbers in both National Assembly and Senate.
Tuju termed Ruto’s blackmailing behavior as selfishness and greed of the highest order.
“It is an open political secret that in the first term of this Presidency, the Deputy President Ruto possessed some “political blackmail stock options that he used to his great personal advantage,” he said.
The Jubilee Party Secretary General also touched on the issue of DP William Ruto having 257 police officers, terming it as part of his blackmail tricks.
Additionally, Tuju questioned Ruto’s source of wealth and how he had become a billionaire within a very short term.
He challenged him to teach the Kenyan youth how to rise up the economic ladder as fast as he did.
In his hard-hitting statement, Tuju also sent out a warning to DP Ruto’s allies, who have been staging attacks at the Kenyatta family. He asked Ruto to call his allies to order.
