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Agriculture Minister William Ruto yesterday attacked at his parliamentary colleagues from Nyanza Province for abandoning development activities and engaging in constant politics while their constituents wallow in poverty.
News (Free subscription) | 11/18/2008
Minister William Ntimama on Tuesday criticised his Agriculture counterpart William Ruto, describing him as “rebellious”.
News (Free subscription) | 11/18/2008
Agriculture Minister William Ruto was on Tuesday told to stop using the Kalenjin community to blackmail his ODM colleagues.
News (Free subscription) | 11/16/2008
A group of ODM MPs have asked Agriculture minister William Ruto to stop criticising Prime Minister Raila Odinga
News (Free subscription) | 11/15/2008
Cabinet Minister William Ruto on Saturday threatened to mobilise the Rift Valley ODM rank and file to leave the party if their interests were not safeguarded.
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... the operations of the party, ODM was back on track.Rift Valley MPs led by Agriculture minister William Ruto have threatened to quit the party saying the PM had neglected the Kalenjin community.But Mr Odinga said that his stand to support the implementation of the Waki report will not change.“I never contradict myself,” he said. |
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... year does not occur again.” Took issueRift Valley MPs, led by Pentagon member and Eldoret North MP William Ruto, in a recent meeting in Kuresoi, took issue with Mr Odinga and accused him of sidelining the community.Mr Odinga said differences in opinion on the Waki report could not break ODM.“The issue is not implementing it, but how to implement it,” he said.On the Mau forest saga,...
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... of America despite his coming from the minority African-Americans.These examples should warn William Ruto of Kenya and the Rift Valley tribe to tread carefully. Let him remember that the reason Kenyans accepted Moi in 1978 and tolerated him for 24 years, was partly because he was from a minority tribe. Had he posed a threat to the Kenyatta regime due to his tribe's numerical strength,...
All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/20/2008
... Rift Valley MPs who want him vacate his ODM position of Deputy Leader for Agriculture minister William Ruto.Raila has a slim parliamentary majority with 105 MPs and could lose his position as Prime Minister if five or more ODM MPs withdrew their support. Rift Valley, which has been unhappy with his stand on the Waki report and Mau Forest, has 32 MPs. Most of them support Ruto...
All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/20/2008
... dinner in Karen.The members are Deputy Prime Minister Musalia Mudavadi, Agriculture minister William Ruto, Tourism minister Najib Balala, Water minister Charity Ngilu, Cooperatives minister Joe Nyagah and Industrialisation minister and ODM chairman Henry Kosgey. The meeting which lasted three hours was preceded by a dinner prepared by Raila's wife, Ida.The Pentagon was formally disbanded...
News (Free subscription) | 11/20/2008
Mr Marende said the team comprising himself, Mr Odinga, Mr Musyoka, deputy Premiers Musalia Mudavadi and Uhuru Kenyatta, Cabinet ministers Kiraitu Murungi, Martha Karua and William Ruto and deputy Speaker Farah Maalim will work with a parliamentary committee co-chaired by Assistant minister Aden Duale and Kitutu Masaba MP Walter Nyambati.
News (Free subscription) | 11/19/2008
“There was a matter of immense urgency,” he said. That matter, we learnt later, was the extreme differences among MPs over the Waki report. Sources said strong statements issued by some politicians, among them Agriculture minister William Ruto, were overshadowing the seminar.
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Agriculture minister William Ruto (right), Kisauni MP Ali Hassan Joho and Lands assistant minister Gonzi Rai follow proceedings on a projector during the Coast province agriculture meeting at Aga Khan Hall in Mombasa on Monday. Photo/LABAN WALLOGA
News (Free subscription) | 11/18/2008
... apparent reference to his alleged fallout with Rift Valley ODM MPs led by Eldoret North’s William Ruto over the Waki report, a hard-talking Mr Odinga was at pains to explain that all was well.The ODM party leader said he was not fighting nor competing with anybody and that it was the democratic right of all Kenyans to state their views on the Waki report.While Mr Odinga has been spearheading...
All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/17/2008
... implicated and sees it as a means to pluck out those threatening his position as party president.William Ruto, seen as a major contender for the ODM presidency, is said to have rallied MPs to oppose Raila on the Waki report.
