Deputy President Dr William Ruto on Wednesday May 20, 2020 got back to work, kicking of his usual inspection of government development projects.
The second in command distributed food to families in Nachu, and inspected the construction of Marengeta Dam, Kikuyu, Kiambu County.
Taking to his official twitter handle Wednesday evening, Ruto said that the country is committed to ensuring that vulnerable Kenyans are supported during this tough period of the Covid-19 crisis, besides coming up with broad plans that will facilitate the country’s rapid recovery from the disease.
“We are committed to ensuring that vulnerable Kenyans are supported during this tough period of the COVID-19 crisis besides coming up with broad plans that will facilitate the country’s rapid recovery from the disease,” he tweeted.
He noted that 600 families in Nachu Ward were part of the wider 3,600 households that benefited from his food distribution, to shield Kenyans from adverse effects of the virus outbreak.
DP Ruto said that the government is also investing in various infrastructural projects such as the construction of the Marengeta Dam, which is part of dams that will benefit more than 120,000 households countrywide.
“We are also investing in various infrastructural projects such as the construction of the Marengeta Dam, which is part of dams that will benefit more than 120,000 households countrywide,” he tweeted.
The DP has been seen as an isolated man in President Uhuru Kenyatta’s government, since the head of state shook hands with ODM party leader Raila Odinga.
Although Deputy President William Ruto’s supporters blame the media for casting unfair attention on him, the real pressure according to the them, is coming from powerful people in the Jubilee Party who have been mobilised to derail his chances of becoming president.
The head of state recently launched a purge in Jubilee, that is targeting DP Ruto’s allies. This saw Elgeyo Marakwet senator Kipchumba Murkomen and his Nakuru counterpart Susan Kihika lose their posts in the senate as senate majority leader and majority whip respectively.
The purge at the senate is yet again set to see senate deputy speaker Prof Kithure Kindiki lose his post, with 51 senators having already signed an ouster motion tabled by the now senate majority whip Irungu Kang’ata.
Some of the DP’s allies have claimed that the changes in parliament are being done so that Ruto can be easily impeached. In the meantime, President Kenyatta has brought KANU’s Gideon Moi on board through a Jubilee-KANU post poll coalition.
