Jubilee Party Asks Deputy President William Ruto to Explain the Source of His Billions

The Jubilee Party has asked Deputy President William Ruto to explain the source of his wealth following the recent public disclosures about his fortune.

Addressing journalists on Monday, Jubilee officials led by secretary-general Raphael Tuju expressed shock at how fast the deputy president managed to accumulate massive wealth within seven years.

“By his own accounts, the deputy president is on video record when he told Kenyans that he was worth Sh100 million sometime in 2015. In the intervening 7 years, he has worked very hard in his businesses, and now, therefore, he has assets like choppers, hotels, and land worth billions of shillings,” said Tuju.

He challenged Ruto to produce his tax remittance proof to Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) from his vast businesses, adding that the deputy president has been more generous than Safaricom and other blue-chip companies.

“We would like to congratulate Ruto for being able to make such amazing strides in business even as he was studying for his Ph.D. concurrently with running a multi-billion-shilling empire and carrying the heavy burden of working as number two in command and being involved in presidential campaigns on his Sundays, and still sparing time to do harambees from his hard-earned sweat money.” 

“It is time he produced the manual to Kenyans on get rich quick that will be beneficial to his hustler movement,” Tuju added.

He added that the revelation by Interior CS Fred Matiang’i that Ruto owns five helicopters, two hangers at Wilson Airpor, two high-end hotels in Nairobi and Mombasa, and more than 20,000 acres of land among others calls for a proper explanation.

“May it please the deputy president Dr. William Ruto EGH, UPL, DL, CH to show these young people all the skills and how to acquire such property in such a short time. He should teach us, the clueless adults in this country, how we can do the same. We may not possess the supernatural powers of hard work that he has but at least he should teach us something else apart from the wheelbarrows, show us another way to perform such miracles.”