Protocol Breach? Kenyans Online React as CS Matiang’i Receives Uhuru as DP Ruto Watches from a Distance

A photo of Interior CS Fred Matiang’i receiving President Kenyatta as Deputy President William Ruto watches from a distance has caused a stir on social media.
Matiang’i was the first in line to welcome Kenyatta after his chopper landed at the Kenya Wildlife Service Law Enforcement Academy in Manyani on Friday for a Cabinet retreat.
This was in breach of government protocol which demands that the President is received by the senior-most person, in this case, DP Ruto.
The incident comes a week after a similar scenario was witnessed at State House during the national prayer service where Uhuru was ushered to the podium to address the nation by Nyeri Catholic Archbishop Anthony Muheria in the presence of Ruto, who did not speak at the event.
About two weeks ago, DP Ruto skipped the national Covid-19 conference at KICC in Nairobi despite the day’s program showing he was to address the meeting before inviting the President to make his speech. In Ruto’s absence, CS Matiang’i took over the role of inviting Uhuru to address the nation.
Today’s incident, which exposed what appears like a growing antagonism between Uhuru and Ruto, sparked mixed reactions among Kenyans online.
Elgeyo Marakwet Senator Kipchumba Murkomen tweeted: “The Deputy President Fred Matiangi receiving the President thereafter introduce other Cabinet members. Those of us who didn’t witness the last days of Mzee Jomo Kenyatta ‘will see things’ in the next 22 months.”
Lawyer Ahmednassir Abdullahi posed: “Is the distance they keep on the recommendation of their security teams?”
@o_abuga wrote: “This man Deputy President William Ruto may have his weaknesses (that's why I don't support him) but it's not proper to undermine his office. Let him perform his duties and retire with President Uhuru Kenyatta. He has his people too, he deserves respect. Mt Kenya brokers, silly!”
@kalu_lepariyo said: “President Uhuru Kenyatta is a democrat, he embraces his Deputy regardless of insults, barbs, and insubordination that him and his handlers are treating him with daily.”
@MillicentOmanga noted: “This reminds me how Moi was frustrated as vice president by people who didn't want him to ascend to the throne. The rest is history.”
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Viongozi wa Kenya wana…
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Viongozi wa Kenya wana uraibu wa siasa 24/7
The leaders of kenya are addicted to politics 24/7
Sisi (kama wananchi wa kawaida) tumechoka na siasa za kila wakati.
We (the ordinary citizens) are sick and tired of insatiable and endless politicking.
Jamani, hamkuchaguliwa kufanya siasa kila siku!
My goodness, You were not elected to campaign everyday!
OKTOBA 16, 1964: SIKU YA…
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OKTOBA 16, 1964: SIKU YA WACHINA KUSHEHEREKEA KITEKNOLOJIA:
Wachina walifaulu tarehe 16, 1964 kulipua bomu lao la kwanza la kinukilea baada ya kunyimwa ujuzi wa kuunda bomu hili na wale wote waliokuwa nayo. Jamani, tuachane na mambo ya siasa na dini na kutilia mkazo mambo ya sayansi, teknolojia, uchumi, kilimo, viwanda, na afya bora ili tusiwe maskini na waomba mikopo duniani kote katika maisha yote yetu.
On October 16, 1964, The Peoples' Republic of China successfully detonated their first nuclear bomb after being denied the technical know how by those who possessed the knowledge to do it. My goodness, let us stop focusing entirely on politics and religion and emphasize the importance of developing our science, technology, economy, agriculture, industry, and health so that we don't propagate our current state of being global beggars throughout our lives.
No protocols were breached…
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No protocols were breached here! You don’t get your worst enemy to receive you any where unless you are a fool!
Let’s get rid of hypocrisy (talking to Mukormen and all concerned) because Kenyans know that Ruto won’t hesitate to dig a very deep grave for Uhuru!!
I won’t take a pass with Ruto any hour of the day! Uhuru is not s fool!
@omanga - you can keep on…
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@omanga - you can keep on remembering but whatta gonna ado!!??
Ruto have refused to serve Kenyans by beginning his political campaigns in 2018! We don’t eat politics and that running of the mouth does not pay school fees for our children!
Maybe @omanga can go receive a wheelbarrow from Ruto to use it as a vehicle to get her from her rural area to Nairobi - yes Ruto can push while she sit in it!!!
Stop the nonsense of lying to the youth by issuing them crap that have no business or monetary values! The youth should stop following these charlatans and squandrels!
The youth deserves better to prepare for a good future!
Matiang’i deserve to receive…
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Matiang’i deserve to receive the head of state! Period!
Why does Ruto want to receive Uhuru while he has been absent without leave? Kenyans are paying him while he is wasting their valuable time campaigning and paying preachers to make him look busy!?
The childish nature of the…
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The childish nature of the DP Ruto and all the goons around him ( Murkomen, sudi, ngunjiri, kihika, ndindi, wahome, etc) have cost Ruto all the respect and decorum that Uhuru ever had for him!
The insults leveled on Uhuru and his family by Ruto's proxies have inadvertently turned off Uhuru’s taste for Ruto! This has become a permanent scar and it will continue to get even worse.
The situation is beyond correction and there will be no reconciliation because in actuality Uhuru does not need Ruto one bit! Ruto is not a person of utility to Uhuru and that will not change!
It is Ruto who will be the biggest loser in this situation!
Uhuru has no love for Ruto!…
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Uhuru has no love for Ruto! Would you blame him when Ruto have kept on playing some monkey 🐒 todler games and high headed ness??
Isn’t life a bit too…
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Isn’t life a bit too complicated??
What is Ruto doing there…
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What is Ruto doing there anyway after mangamangaring the whole country and bribing the real hustlers to vote for him. This guy is an enemy of development and should therefore resign. Those other thugs in the government eating covid money should be dealt with at the ballot box.
Lets clean this system come 2020.
Ruto’s development plan =…
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In reply to What is Ruto doing there… by Mūgīkūyū (not verified)
Ruto’s development plan = wheelbarrows!
It is the youth who are getting hoodwinked by DP Ruto because the don’t know any better!!
Which other thugs? Every…
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In reply to What is Ruto doing there… by Mūgīkūyū (not verified)
Which other thugs? Every politician is a thug! The only difference is that DP Ruto and company breaks the record of thugism!
Ruto carries out a wanton thugry with trumpery! It is for Kenyans and mostly the youth to wake up and reject the bastard “wheelbarrownomics retrogressive narrative” that Ruto is selling to them for votes! Quite sad indeed!
A man who have traded…
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In reply to What is Ruto doing there… by Mūgīkūyū (not verified)
A man who have traded chicken like Ruto has before would not have a clear concept of what is constituted in development!
Did you not see how Nairobi looked like during Moi’s regime? Everything had turned into a mogotio ghetto. That is typical Ruto!
Everything went to hell until Kibaki’s come in to fix things! Ruto is from the Moi school of dirty politics, retarded development and negative growth economy!
Ruto will not do any better except issuing more wheelbarrows to the scams of the earth who he continues to deceive.
But Ruto will take home 1000 expensive helicopters bought with the money from those poor guys tax money! That is how old thieves operate!
DP Ruto is solely…
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DP Ruto is solely responsible for tarnishing and degrading the office of the DP because of his arrogance! The issue of killing Kenei in the DP have lowered bar and decorum for the sole occupant who is Ruto himself!
Didnt someone say that…
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Didnt someone say that vanity of vanity is more vanity? You can’t hide in vanity and then expect not to be affected along the way! Ruto knows what caused his problems with Uhuru!
Ruto is no longer a value…
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Ruto is no longer a value addition to Uhuru’s government! He just needs to resign and try his luck at a later date. He won’t make it in 2022 as things stand!
The man of Sugoi has been…
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The man of Sugoi has been reduced to a tout; something Oscar Sudi knows far too well how it feels!!
The only people getting…
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The only people getting caught up in this Ruto’s dead end kind of wheelbarrownomics are folks like Karua, Murkomen, David Dii, etc who hopes to benefit should Ruto become president in 2022! These are folks without vision for the future of our country!
It is those people who have been stealing from Kenyans since YK92 and they want to continue the corruption narrative even after over 30 years of draining Kenya’s coffers!
Professor Makau Mutua is the only person who have stood grounds of telling Kenyans the truth about Ruto and where the man of Sugoi will take Kenya!
Makau is the only man who is standing by the truth because he lives Kenya!
Actually, wheelbarrownomics is simply a curse to the youth and the future generations! The entire world have already moved into better ways of doing things but Ruto wants to take Kenya into the dark Stone Age times!
Where was Martha Karua to…
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Where was Martha Karua to read the constitutional dispensation to Ruto as he stood there wearing some crazy looking trousers?
No one the president was received by Matiang’i who seemed to have the right respect and decorum!
@Lawyer Abudullahi; yes the…
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@Lawyer Abudullahi; yes the grand mulla! - don’t you know any better to play stupid here!? Your question here about distancing makes a man of your caliber sound idiotically foolish!
No wonder Ruto is buying your loyalty using some 🍬 candy-like tokenism so you can jump in his bandwagon to betray the Kenyan people!
How many wheelbarrows in terms of millions of shillings have you (Abudullahi) received from Ruto to stoop so damn low???
I thought you went to Harvard where intelligent men/ women are nourished with knowledge, wisdom and understanding!!?? Are you mentally handicapped or endowed??
Lawyers are known to never…
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In reply to @Lawyer Abudullahi; yes the… by Sister Jane (not verified)
Lawyers are known to never have loyalty to any blood veined human! They only have loyalty to camels because they can trade them or pay dowry with them.
All they want is money and more money regardless of the origin/source of that money! It does not even matter if the money was ill gotten through corruption, bloody murder, drugs, or from a pile of cow dung!
Humanity gets out of lawyers once the sound of money 💰 rings! They will sell a fetus while in a mother’s womb for money!
They have no moral conscience or any fallible guilt! And that is the pure description of lawyer Abudullahi! He is ready to sell our country to get an extra penny in his dry pockets from Ruto, the high prince of corruption and theft!
It is the greed of the highest order without any shame!!
@Ruto - where is the damn…
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@Ruto - where is the damn wheelbarrow to carry Uhuru around?? I think you could do better carrying him around instead of flying in a military helicopter!
Wow Ruto - where is the damn 🥩 beef!? Pure baloney!!!
@Ruto - who is the owner of…
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@Ruto - who is the owner of a lonely 💜 heart here?? The super CS is laughing all the way to the bank as you just look stupid stand locked up!
You messed with the Jomo’s progeny lineage boy!
Uhuru is done with you @Ruto…
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Uhuru is done with you @Ruto! There is nothing you can do about it. Please resign!
What is happening here is…
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What is happening here is more than politics! And I think Ruto is the ultimate loser all the way and around! What does Uhuru got to lose to DX Ruto? Nothing!!!
Surprisingly, I have felt…
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Surprisingly, I have felt sorry for Ruto for the first time and maybe for the last time! Wow, Uhuru is not a joke my fren!!!
Hopefully, the man of Sugoi will never get a chance to revenge because there will be a lot of “Kenei’s” with toes, fingers and arms sliced off! Wow, God forbid!! I’m just saying...........!!!!!!!
You can see the revenge rage in Ruto’s face! It is there folks!!!!!
Did Ruto have a male parent…
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Did Ruto have a male parent growing up?? He lacks some basic wisdom!
Ruto does not have a chance…
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Ruto does not have a chance to survive this onslaught! His days are numbers no matter the alternative plan he may have in store!
History repeat itself. Mzee…
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History repeat itself. Mzee Moi was treated like that in 70s by them Kiambu mafias. It came back to haunt them bigly in 80s after Moi ascended to power. The "hasira mingi" CS should know that Moi too had a powerful internal security Minister called Hezekiah Uyugi. Little is remembered of him today! Nothing is permanent in politics..not even that Ruto handshake that Uhunye so much needed in 2013 & 2017. Hata ule mganga wa risasi moja knows very well that Gikuyu can never be trusted. Stop hosting and throwing parties to fake & big tummies elders from Kiambu thinking that you will be handed power in 2022 like a piece of candie.A Gikuyuman myself,am very ashamed and dismayed to see you being duped .Them deep state mafias are taking you for a joy ride in Kenya. Not in Canaan.Canaan is for the jews.
There is no history to be…
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In reply to History repeat itself. Mzee… by Haki yetu (not verified)
There is no history to be repeated here! It is in your crazy mind to conjure such a silly thing. Ruto has done worse things which landed him to the perfect place he stands now!
Moi had a share of his dirty deeds too, far worse than what he received from the beautiful kiambu mafia as you suggest!
Ruto is just a walk in the park and lacks natural instinct to see it coming!
You will be more than duped…
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In reply to History repeat itself. Mzee… by Haki yetu (not verified)
You will be more than duped if Ruto were to become president! It will be a matter of life and death for you! Don’t even try to deceive yourself in your dreams! Just go get a wheelbarrow because that seems to the sky limit for you! A damn wheelbarrow!!! Boy, you got some dreams, goals and aspirations! Don’t you???
Ruto is duping you @haki…
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In reply to History repeat itself. Mzee… by Haki yetu (not verified)
Ruto is duping you @haki yetu! You are a very sorry kikuyu man to be ashamed of your weak self! Kikuyu men are our leaders and they have help up the beauty of our country! Please! You must be mwana wa ndigwa na Thoguo ari muriu when you got conceived!!
Certainly you are speaking for your deceitful mind alone! Don’t be an apologist for the Gikuyu men because they are the strongest warriors, wise, tough, and focused men in the whole wide world!
I knew you have some mental issues of insecurity the moment I set to read your junk! I hope you don’t have a son because you will be the worst father to raise that son; with some childish shame! Ati you are ashamed to be a Gikuyuman!!!!???? You trash!!
You must be a son of those…
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In reply to History repeat itself. Mzee… by Haki yetu (not verified)
You must be a son of those who were collaborators ( home guards like Ruto) who aligned themselves with the colonial white masters to fight the freedom fighters @ hakiyetu!
No wonder you are ashamed to be a Gikuyu man because you have no spine and pride to stand up for what is right! No wonder you got to follow a thief around because you can’t work hard to earn a decent living.
Go to Sugoi and get a free wheelbarrow from Ruto who seem to have wrapped your weak shameful mind, and then start supplying food to the home guards (DP Ruto) who fought freedom fighters! You probably wish Kenyans were still ruled by the white idiots!
You are truly very weak and no wonder you are damn ashamed of yourself! Why don’t you start wearing some red skirts and get yourself a prostitute’s job outside Ruto’s gate waiting for scrums to feed on??
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You are awfully mistaken @hakiyetu that Uhuru needed Ruto in 2013 to be president! It was the other way around if only you understand politics! Evidently you are quite crue less of the facts which necessarily don’t belong to your myopic view!
“A Gikuyuman yourself”???…
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“A Gikuyuman yourself”??? Who asked you?? Ruto is not being fought because he is a kalenjin! He is the wrong man to lead Kenya to the future we so desperately want and desire! Kenyans are past the tribe matters except you!
Ruto has no idea what self…
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Ruto has no idea what self awareness is all about - so unfortunate!
You spoilt kids, you grew up…
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You spoilt kids, you grew up being told that a poor peasant Kid will never rise up to become a President and C-in-C! Hold your Breath. Ruto will can and will win bigly. We the Hustlers have the votes to elect him as the 5th President of Kenya.click here to watch that prediction"https://youtu.be/ENr2diI_pig If Ruto run in 2022 and loses, it will be because of voters intimidation and massive rigging by them mafias aka deep-state system. They will use the brain-washed security systems to start voters intimidation. If you care about your country, watch Boniface Mwangi documentary "Softie" that is on PBS channel as well as other new outlets. Share your comments as you so wish!
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In reply to You spoilt kids, you grew up… by Haki yetu (not verified)
I just feel sorry for you @haki yetu! Really sorry you are plainly ignorant and stupid at best! A hustler is one very poor man and certainly you are just that man! I feel sorry for any woman who would sympathize with your foolishness to allow herself to fall in love with you! You would just make her life doomed to poverty! And you would get a free wheelbarrow to take her to the hospital to deliver your kids!
We love being spoilt kids…
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In reply to You spoilt kids, you grew up… by Haki yetu (not verified)
We love being spoilt kids because our parents worked very hard by refusing to be called hustlers! They had better dreams for us and they did not expect to be give anything for free (wheelbarrow) like you @ hakiyetu!
Get yourself a damn job like…
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Get yourself a damn job like a normal man! Stop telling us about Ruto because we ain’t interested!
One thing that makes me very…
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One thing that makes me very sad is the simple fact that Kenyans can be deceived and swayed by very simple selfish slogans like “wheelbarrows”!
Those lying to Kenyans should know better if the country is to equitably progress! The gluttonous show displayed by DP Ruto and his followers is all the reason politics of personal destruction have deeply affected the ordinary Kenyans!
Ngunjiri is Raila boy. but…
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Ngunjiri is Raila boy. but can concentrate on rejecting BBI for now and come 2022 we vote for the devil we don't know.It is the we do it ala Biden and root out the dynasties crooks and thiefs . Uhuru and Ruto will solve their issues themselves Kenya is bigger than them
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