This archive report was first published on 7 July 2019.
On Saturday, Deputy President William Ruto was captured on camera silencing 'drunk' hecklers who attempted to disrupt his rally at Kehancha in Migori County.
During the event, Ruto commissioned the Sh2.8 billion Kehancha-Lolgorian road, but a section of the youth in the crowd he was addressing attempted to shout him down.
According to reports, the incident occurred after Kuria West MP Mathius Robi was booed by the rowdy youth, forcing him to cut short his speech and hand over the microphone to Kuria East MP Marwa Kitayama.
As seen in a video, Ruto, who was addressing the crowd from the sunroof of his vehicle, lectured the drunk youths and asked them to either shut up or leave his function.
“Hey you! You’ll keep quiet. Don’t indulge us in your drunkard ways,” Ruto said while wagging his fingers at the youth.
He added, “If you don’t want to listen to us then it is better you leave. The development projects we have come to launch here today are for the benefit of our youth and I can’t afford to have the same people heckling leaders.”
Ruto also clarified that the street lighting programme being launched across the country is meant to boost the economy and not to offer enough lighting for drunkards to keep loitering in shopping centres.
Interestingly, during the DP’s visit, Provincial Administration officers were conspicuously absent at the function.
