This archive report was first published on 22 August 2021.
On August 22, 2021, Deputy President William Ruto attended a Sunday service at A.C.K St. Luke's Wang'uru Church in Kirinyaga County, where he addressed the opposition leaders.
He urged Raila Odinga and his former National Super Alliance (NASA) principals to stop distracting President Uhuru Kenyatta from delivering on the Big Four agenda, which includes food security, universal healthcare, affordable housing, and industrialization.
Ruto claimed that the country had failed to progress economically because the President had been reduced to an arbitrator in the ongoing struggles with ex-NASA partners.
He linked his remarks to the Court of Appeal judgement which upheld the nullification of the Building Bridges Initiative Constitution Amendment on Friday, August 20, 2021.
'I would like to ask those leaders who entered the Government as a result of the Handshake, that now the clamour of the BBI has been quashed, please allow the President to deliver services for the 45 million Kenyans,' he said.
Ruto advised the leaders to go and craft policies that they will present to Kenyans ahead of next year's general election.
He termed the appeal court ruling as 'Godsent' to humble a section of the country's leaders who had attempted to dismember the Constitution.
