Who Will Blink First? Ruto,Raila War of Words Intensify
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President William Ruto has hit back at Azimio la Umoja One Kenya Coalition Leader Raila Odinga after the former Prime Minister alleged that former Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) commissioners, Wafula Chebukati, Abdi Guliye, and Boya Molu paid him a visit, before the announcement of presidential poll results.
Addressing a rally at Jacaranda Grounds on Sunday, January 29, Raila indicated that he had proof to justify that the electoral body officials sought his audience and made some requests to him.
“Chebukati says that there are some people who wanted to bribe him, together with his friends Guliye and Molu. I want to ask you. What did you come to do in my house? What did you ask from me? And I have footage for that. You play with me, and I will release it,” said Raila.
Responding to Raila’s sentiments, President Ruto interrogated him over the assertions, wanting to know why the chairman of the commission was in his house.
“I was listening yesterday to one of our politicians who was alleging that members of IEBC went to his house, and he is telling this story five months after the act, and he is volunteering this information linked with insinuations that these officials had gone there for something he has not disclosed,” the president said.
“It then pegs the question if it is true, what were these officials doing in your house at your invitation being a candidate how did you end up inviting officials of an independent body?” Ruto asked.
Rais Ruto ajibu madai ya mtoa taarifa wa IEBC
The president was speaking during the 16th Annual General Meeting and Conference of the Africa Prosecutors’ Association in Mombasa on Monday.
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