Deputy President William Ruto, Kenya’s self-proclaimed ‘Hustler’ now says the Jubilee party challenges have helped him graduate to become a survivor.
Addressing the failthfuls at the Global Cathedral Church on Sunday, September 12, in Lang’ata, Ruto said the challenges he has faced under the Jubilee government have transformed him into a survivor.
“I have graduated from hustler to survivor because of the many challenges I have undergone,” the deputy president said.
An outsider in the Jubilee government he helped form, the former Agriculture Minister said he will not be called a hustler but a survivor adding that most people have been thinking that the term ‘Hustler’ was abusive.
“In our nation, most people thought that the word hustler was abusive, and it was about people at the bottom,” he said.
While reacting to the sermon delivered by Bishop Moses Turere of The Global Cathedral on State persecution by UDA allies, the deputy President recalled an incident in Mombasa where one of his followers called him a ‘survivor’ after the man of God called him the same name.
“The Bishop has reminded me of an incident in Mombasa where I was passing somewhere and people began greeting me saying ‘habari mheshimiwa, habari hustler’ and then one man told me ‘habari survivor’,
“That is the only time I have ever been called survivor until today. I am actually a survivor. God has had to step in for us many times to be where we are today,” Ruto explained.
It is no doubt that the deputy president is has undergone so many challenges in the Jubilee administration since the March 2018 Handshake between President Uhuru Kenyatta and the ODM leader Raila Odinga.
Last month, the first in command asked the deputy president to quit the Jubilee government if he cannot sustain the Jubilee government heat.
This happened just days after a change in DP Ruto’s security team.
