Jubilee political party has asked deputy president William Ruto to return billions of shillings he is accused of swindling from the government.
In a press statement on Monday through the party’s secretary general Rafael Tuju, Jubilee accused Ruto of graft scandals and abuse of office.
Tuju also questioned how DP Ruto was able to acquire his vast wealth within a short period of time.
“The DP is on video record when he told Kenyans that he is worth Ksh100M in 2015, in the intervening seven years, he has worked very hard and has assets like choppers, hotels, and land worth billions.”
Tuju went on to request the DP to show hustlers and other people how to acquire so much property in such a short period of time.
“While the exact average of what he (DP Ruto) is said to own may still be debatable, he has accepted the ownership of at least 3600 acres of land, he should show ‘hustlers’ and us clueless adults on how to acquire such property in such a short time,” the CS without portfolio said.
Tuju who was speaking outside the party’s headquarters also accused Ruto of blackmailing the president during his first term from 2013-2017. He said that the blackmail only ended after the handshake between the president and ODM leader Raila Odinga.
“We believe that our president has been very tolerant indeed. The blackmail stock options expiry date was immediately after the 2017 elections. The battery died after the handshake because the number game and the blackmail of withdrawal of tribal numbers lost political potency at that time, this is the truth that all Kenyans should know,” he stated.
Aside from that, Tuju wanted the deputy president to show receipts of the huge amount of money he has paid to the Kenya Revenue Authority.
The Secretary General as well cited the Arror and Kimwarer dams’ scandal in his statement to the deputy president. According to Tuju, the DP said that about Ksh7 billion disappeared and that he had assured Kenyans the money would be returned.
“Ksh7 billion disappeared and he assured us it would be returned. It has never been returned by the Italians. His daughter was the ambassador in Rome at the time and since he has some private business in Italy, would he be so kind to this nation of ‘hustlers’ to use his vast business network to recover this money.”
He urged Ruto to come out clean and respond to the matter for the sake of Kenyans while saying that time for cheap, media spinning and media doctoring was over.
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