On March 10, 2019, a group of five Jubilee Party legislators from the Rift Valley region accused President Uhuru Kenyatta of leveraging anti-corruption efforts to undermine Deputy President William Ruto's 2022 presidential bid. The lawmakers, including Marakwet East MP Kangogo Bowen and Marakwet West MP William Kisang, claimed Kenyatta's actions targeted the Kalenjin community to prevent Ruto from succeeding him.
Bowen stated, "This is politics and we won't entertain tricks. If Uhuru does not want Ruto, let him not sacrifice Kalenjins. Let him engage Ruto on his own." Kisang echoed the sentiment, challenging Kenyatta to support alternative candidates like Raila Odinga if he abandoned his public pledge to back Ruto.
The MPs argued that Kenyatta's anti-graft initiatives disproportionately affected Ruto's political base, asserting that the president's actions contradicted his earlier commitment to back Ruto after his second term. The allegations emerged amid heightened tensions within the ruling party ahead of the 2022 elections.
The original article, published in 2019, included a copyright notice for The Kenyan Daily Post dating to 2012.
