Uhuru to Ruto: You Should Have Resigned and Let Me Appoint Someone Else

Uhuru to Ruto: You Should Have Resigned and Let Me Appoint Someone Else

President Kenyatta has taken a swipe at Deputy President William Ruto, accusing him of absconding duty and inciting Kenyans against his administration.

Speaking on Sunday during Labor Day celebrations at Nyayo stadium in Nairobi, the president said Ruto should have resigned to pave the way for the appointment of a person who is ready to assist in solving the country’s problems.

He claimed that Ruto has resorted to hurling insults and blaming him for the high cost of living and the recent fuel crisis in the country.

“Instead of assisting me to find solutions to our problems, you are accusing me and inciting Kenyans in political rallies. Why don’t you leave your position so that I can get someone else to assist me?” Kenyatta posed.

The president noted that the high cost of living and the fuel shortage were as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic and the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine, which are beyond his control.

"Sio Wakenya walileta Covid, na wakati tumeanza kuangalia tutafanya namna gani ili tujiokoe, wengine wameanza vita ambayo hata sisi hatuelewi," he said.

“Mambo yamekuwa magumu sio tu kwa nchi yetu…Mamilioni ya watu dunia mzima walipoteza maisha yao na mamilioni wengine zaidi kupoteza kazi zao. Hiyo haikuwa kwa sababu ya Uhuru ama mtu mwengine.”

At the same time, Uhuru heaped praises on ODM leader Raila Odinga for agreeing to work with him in the interest of the country.

"Badala ya kuja kunisaidia wewe [Ruto] uko kwa soko na matusi, na unajiita kiongozi. Namshukuru yule mzee [Raila] ata kama alikua na mambo yake alikuja kunisaidia," he added.
 

Comments

Morris Menye (not verified)     Sun, 05/01/2022 @ 03:38pm

Jambazi Uhuru must carry his own cross.Too late to cry.The high cost of living has been there even before COVID and Putin bartering of Ukraine.Jambazi Uhuru even confessed to looting shs 2b.daily on top of shs 200b EUROBOND,shs 217b.COVID loans.Corruption is the main contributor.But the 2010 katiba which TOOK CORRUPTION TO THE GRASSROOTS by multiplying it by 48 times.Just imagine 6.5 million applying MUCUS to create 47 county governments yet the same hungry billionaires could not afford one government.But Uhuru’s poop brains started dreaming BBI to expand GK instead of downsizing it.

GG (not verified)     Mon, 05/02/2022 @ 03:21pm

In reply to by Guest (not verified)

The best analogy is like most of today’s relationships and marriages; a couple often looks like they are deeply in love, they get married and immediately after the honey they start fighting due to incompatibilities!

Uhuru & Ruto didn’t care much about their chemistry or compatibility, what led them come together is pure greed for power and leadership! They had their personal shared goals of being presidents and NOT for the interest of the country.

Go crypto (not verified)     Sun, 05/01/2022 @ 04:22pm

Great he's admitting that Raila doesn't have capacity and capabilities to help him. Both of you now go home to ichabondo!!

Imara Daima (not verified)     Sun, 05/01/2022 @ 04:32pm

Vice President Samoei Arap Ruto Lack of political maturity and diplomacy during the late President Mwai Wanjiku Kibaki Nyayo Stadium Celebration Day is unpardonable
When foreign dignitaries and Kenyan people gathered at Nyayo stadium to eulogize and celebrate the death of the 3rd president of Kenya, I was very disappointed at the lack of political maturity and diplomacy when the current vice president had the microphone and expressed his personal views about the departed president. How unfortunate!
He praised President Kibaki as the best president in the entire Kenyan history. This statement was inappropriate because the current president Uhuru Ngina Kamau was sitting in the crowd listening to Samoei’s lack of diplomacy and inappropriate speech. How sad!

GG (not verified)     Mon, 05/02/2022 @ 03:26pm

In reply to by Richie (not verified)

I hate to be a bearer of bad news, as mush as I despise all politicians including Ruto, Ruto as he stands today have a very high chance of being the next president over any other! I hope you heard people chanting his name while @ Kibaki’s funeral, that’s how it is in the entire country! Citizens conscience have been sold! I also don’t understand why, but, majority are Ruto’s.

Kipserem (not verified)     Mon, 05/02/2022 @ 10:13pm

In reply to by GG (not verified)

Chanting names does not equal to votes. Those chanting damn Ruto were paid to do so. Ruto is very immature and he will never be the president of the Republic of Kenya.

Besides, Ruto is the biggest thief of Kenya’s coffers. A thief will always be a thief; and that’s a fact.

GG (not verified)     Tue, 05/03/2022 @ 05:26pm

In reply to by Kipserem (not verified)

Kipserem, I am on the ground zigzagging the country as we speak. So whatever information I am giving you is very accurate coz I am not naive when it comes to politics & Kenyans mentality! All those negative characteristics/facts you mentioned about Ruto does not matter to the local mwanainchi here! They could care less, all they want is Uhuru to get out, Uhuru’s project Raila + handshake out & Ruto the hurler in!

Mark my words & watch what will happen! We will have this discussion to revisit after election. Kenyans can’t save themselves despite knowing the dangers & risks lying ahead.

Morris Menye (not verified)     Sun, 05/01/2022 @ 04:36pm

Pole sana to some Kenya who agree with all lies advanced by thug Uhuru &Co.Fighting corruption from the TOP(Uhuru)-down(police constable) and downsizing the idle/bloated/useless GK are the only ways to reduce the heavy taxation and cost of living.Why have 48 governments whose only known resources are CORRUPTION & LOAN TO LOOT in the first place?Your buzaa/methanol drunken,Ihuru(Vulture) pretends not to know that Ruto was elected DP,not appointed one.The KIRURU/CHIBUKU/SORGHUM drunkard cannot remember issuing 2018 EXECUTIVE ORDER No1 which transferred all Ruto’s official duties to Matiang’i.But the same ALCOHOLIC BREWS could not “ADVICE” him(Uhuru) that Matiang’i was working for muuaji Raila to internally undermine him(Uhuru).

Nyina wa Chege (not verified)     Mon, 05/02/2022 @ 08:18am

In reply to by Morris Menye (not verified)

I am beginning to think you need a bad ass whipping from an old lady like me. The Devil has really consumed you dirty head. @menye, who is your mother? Did you have a father when growing up? Nonsense!

Vega (not verified)     Sun, 05/01/2022 @ 07:09pm

Ruto is an opportunist who settles for the blow when the world pandemic situation has affected the economic order of kenya and the world. Ruto prefers to capitalize on petty things while he continues to get paid by tax payers for doing nothing.

Ruto is not the right guy to take over from Uhuru as he is deeply self centered and does not think about Kenyans except himself and what goes to his greedy mouth.He should have resigned to allow kenya to get a working DP.

Morris Menye (not verified)     Sun, 05/01/2022 @ 09:24pm

In reply to by Vega (not verified)

Kenya has been broke for many years before COVID and Ukraine war.All post colonial regimes have been corrupt.Your EXECUTIVE THUG,Ihuru confessed to looting shs 2b. daily a year before COVID.He had looted another shs 200b.EUROBOND in 2016 and another shs 217b. COVID loans.Your world pandemic defense for Ihuru’s failures and stealing are TOTAL RUBBISH.I wish you can explain how you will recover loans taken by Ihuru to loot after paying salaries?Or are you paid any loot dividends?

Vega (not verified)     Mon, 05/02/2022 @ 08:15am

In reply to by Morris Menye (not verified)

You made kenya broke snatching women purses at corner Mbaya in Naivasha you crook. You are a known thief all over kenya and all the reason you are a Ruto sycophant because he is your thieving mentor. If only you could apply yourself just a bit toward building Kenya, things won’t be as bad as you seem to think. Your mother failed to raise you well and no wonder you tend to think shallow all the time.

Wesley (not verified)     Sun, 05/01/2022 @ 07:16pm

Ruto says he is just a phone call away for president to call him. Such an arrogant statement shows that Ruto does not fully understand his responsibilities as the DP if he expects that Uhuru has to call him.

The fallout between the two happened because Ruto was skimming to undermine Uhuru and take over the government through unorthodox means. Ruto is a power hungry bustard and Kenyans should never trust him.

I find it quite strange that Ruto does not understand his role as the second in command in the Republic of Kenya.

Sam (not verified)     Mon, 05/02/2022 @ 10:21pm

In reply to by hipocrite (not verified)

Fortunately I am not from the region you just mentioned @hypocrite. I kinda feel sorry for your mountain folks who have been bewitched by kalenjins to sing the Ruto song. Is Ruto not the one who killed your women in 2007 and stole your land? He burned them alive inside the Kiambaa church. Ruto will finish Kikuyus if he gets to power. Just wondering because you all seem lost because of greed of petty cash.

Asista (not verified)     Wed, 05/04/2022 @ 12:12am

In reply to by Sam (not verified)

Sam , stop your usual nonsense. You actually live closer or among the Kalenjin community than those in the MT region. Leave people decide whom they want to elect. Your bitterness of your project Baba loosing ground will make worse of your condition. Try to stay sober. Pantophobic.

Guest (not verified)     Sun, 05/01/2022 @ 09:34pm

What happened to just firing for incompetence or abandonment of official duties in favor of campaigns one year before the elections.The guy has been on campaign mode for years and is using government funds including choppers and security for his campaigns and to guard his chickens .Basically his chickens have more security than regular folk.Uhuru stop the BS if you wanted him out there are several ways you could have used.The buck stops with you.Daniel Moi could not have put up with such insurbordination he used to fire over the radio for all his faults atleast he knew when to flex his might when it mattered

Asista (not verified)     Mon, 05/02/2022 @ 08:03am

In reply to by Guest (not verified)

He cannot be fired in the place. Not even with imagined incompetence because he is more competent than the president. He hasn’t absconded his duties. He has no pending work. He has been going out to meet the people, hear their problems and inspecting projects. While out he has also been selling government policies for which they campaign for. He does not have security guarding his chicken as you insinuate but his house.
Moi had the power by the constitution to fire at will but the new constitution protects that today.
The current deputy president is not a presidential appointee but elected directly by the people. If Ruto had done anything wrong, believe me Uhuru could gladly jumped in to use it to rid him out of office.
So let Uhurus BS be his own BS.

Asista (not verified)     Mon, 05/02/2022 @ 01:11am

Uhuru must be finding himself so awkward and self defeating . Now that we have confirmed what he wanted of his deputy when he transferred his duties was a resignation. And Ruto was smart enough not to have given him. He should be reminded again that the seat he occupies was Musalias. And the deputy was still Mr. Ruto then. He has to thank the few who searched for him from his drunken den to be where he is now. He has to be thankful for his deputy’s great campaign. We all know he won’t be president today we’re it not for his deputy.
If he is so much concerned about the failed economy, why has he not met his cabinet in the last two years? We obviously know when Baba came, Ruto was shown the door, and Baba who was to be made the deputy had Ruto resigned by design, took him to sleep.
So Uhuru, make your complaints while facing your Baba and leave alone your proactive deputy.
Remember one thing that most of us know that you are fooling Baba in the same way you thought you fooled Ruto. And Baba knows about it. How could you all of a sudden turn around and claim to have forgiven Baba, the man who has been your main opposite, the man who has called you and your family names, the man who sent secret dossier to the ICC so that you can get looked up, the man who with the frail help of Makau went to the US and Europe seeking to have you convicted at the Hague? If you are genuine that you forgave all this, then why won’t you have forgiven your deputy president. See that’s how we know your forgiveness to Raila is not genuine.!!

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