Ruto: There Was an Attempt to Abduct and Assassinate Chebukati

Ruto: There Was an Attempt to Abduct and Assassinate Chebukati

President Ruto says there was an attempt to assassinate IEBC Chairperson Wafula Chebukati during last year’s general election.

Ruto claimed the failed plot by the ‘system’ involved abducting and killing Chebukati in a bid to subvert the will of the people. 

"We know that there was a direct attempt to abduct Wafula Chebukati and murder him so that the commission would be paralyzed, or a compliant commissioner takes over and subvert the people’s sovereignty," said Ruto.

Ruto, who spoke during a meeting with constitutional commissions at State House, Nairobi on Tuesday, further said IEBC officials were also threatened and offered huge monetary rewards to interfere with the election’s outcome.

"It was a hard, cold and lonely time, the threats were dire, the promised rewards lavish and the pressure relentless. We now know that Chebukati, commissioners Abdi Yakub Guliye and Boya Molu as well as the CEO, Hussein Marjan, and their staff, were offered stupendous financial rewards to cooperate with the agents of impunity, but they bravely resisted," said Ruto.

"We also know that they were subsequently threatened with dire consequences for them and their families if they did not do the ‘system’s bidding and overturn the choice of Kenyans. Again, we know that they stood strong and firmly said “NO!”," he added.

The president commended Chebukati and his team for standing firm and resisting attempts to subvert the will of the electorate.

"It is this uncompromising commitment to his constitutional responsibility that enabled Chebukati to lead IEBC in learning effectively from the 2013 and 2017 elections to deliver an election that met the highest standards and, in fact, that was ‘unstealable’," said Ruto.

Chebukati and commissioners Abdi Guliye and Boya Molu left office on Tuesday after the expiry of their six-year terms.

 

Comments

MakOnyango (not verified)     Tue, 01/17/2023 @ 02:01pm

I normally take with a grain of salt whatever DP Ruto says but there might be an element of truth in this one when considering what happened to Musando and also forced Akombe to flee the country.

Imara (Mpya) Daima (not verified)     Tue, 01/17/2023 @ 02:55pm

WAFULA CHEBUKATI

Sote twajua ya kwamba, kama Wafula Chebukati angalisoma na kufuata Sura ya Sita (6) ya Katiba Mpya ya Kenya, zaidi ya asilimia hamsini (50%) ya watu waliochaguliwa sasa, wangalikuwa jela.

Wengi wa watu waliochaguliwa sasa ni wezi, matapeli, majambazi, waongo, wauaji, wapokea na pia watoa rushwa. Ndiyo sababu mojawapo kubwa sana ambayo inawafanya askari polisi kuwanyanyasa wananchi kwa kuombaomba rushwa kwa sababu wanajua hakuna jambo lolote litakalotendeka kwao kama wakishikwa.

SULUHISHO
1. Wananchi wakipewa ruhusa na serikali ya kutumia "simu za kisasa" kunakili(record)( uhalifu wowote kola mahali nchini unapofanywa na MKenya yeyote, nchi yetu itafufuka tena na kuwa nchi nzuri sana hata kushinda nchi ya Rwanda kwa uzuri.
2. Wote wanaohusika kwenye mahakama zote za taifa, wawaadhibu wahalifu wote waliomo nchini bila mapendeleo ya aina yoyote.
3. Askari polisi waondolewe barabarani halafu teknolojia ya kisasa iwanase wote wanaoendesha motokaa kwa kasi. Pia, ni muhimu sana kuyakagua magari (breki, magurudumu) kwa muda unaofaa ma kuyaondoa magari yasiyofaa barabarani ili kupunguza ajali nchini.

Kwa wote mliochaguliwa kuwahudumia wananchi wote wa Kenya: Acheni mikutano yote ya siasa na kuanza mara moja kufanya kazi ili nchi yetu iwe nchi iliyo nzuri kuliko nchi zote katika Bara La Asili ya Watu (BLAWA) a.k.a. Afrfica au COHO - Continenr Of Human Origins.

Ni muhimu/lazima mikutano yote ya siasa ipigwe marufuku mpaka mwaka wa 2027.

Warid (not verified)     Tue, 01/17/2023 @ 04:35pm

Give Kenyans a break Ruto! BTW, Chebukati would not have been the first one for you to kill! Do you recall Msando, Juma, Kenei, etc?? Let the by gones be gone. You ain't the cleanest cat to drop a murder bombshell to hoodwink Kenyans.

Juju (not verified)     Tue, 01/17/2023 @ 05:04pm

Mulevi and his fake brother, the peoples conman should be hanged for treason along with their criminal enterprise buddies!!!

formerly guest 2 (not verified)     Tue, 01/17/2023 @ 05:45pm

Just shut up and serve Kenyans. Bure kabisa still in campaign mode. What do you want the avrage Kenyan to do with that information? NONSENSE! Why does this useless leader gives me Moi Era vibes!

Sospeter (not verified)     Wed, 01/18/2023 @ 02:18pm

In reply to by Bmore (not verified)

He is creating a smoke screen to make people forget the evils ruto himself has done in the past. He is teying to make the hustlers forget about everything that has gone wrong since he was rigged in by Chebukati and Koome.

Powertothepeople (not verified)     Wed, 01/18/2023 @ 01:32pm

Who cares. Most Kenyans are trying to feed their families. This is Bullshit. Let the Kenyan Police deal with this stuff. Try and govern if you can. You do not have any clean hands!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

Imara (Mpya) Daima (not verified)     Wed, 01/18/2023 @ 03:23pm

Let us not forget for a second the "Kiambaa Church of Holocaust" of 2007. In this place of "prayer," innocent men, women, and children lost their lives.
A museum should be built on sight in Eldoret lest we forget what psychopaths are capable of doing.

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." - George Santayana

Imara (Mpya) Daima (not verified)     Thu, 01/19/2023 @ 02:06pm

Neither Raila nor Samoei were qualified to run for the highest office in the land. Why? Both could not pass the test of Chapter Six (6) of our Constitution. Both had plenty of skeletons rattling in their closets.

Had Wafula Chebukati read Chapter 6 of the Constitution of Kenya thoroughly well, Raila and Samoei would have been automatically disqualified from running for any elective public office.

Jusper (not verified)     Fri, 01/20/2023 @ 06:00am

In reply to by Imara (Mpya) Daima (not verified)

Does Chebukati look like he can read? The dude looks like a fool dummy. Money superseded everything Chebukati did. He was heavily bribed by Ruto to declare him president. He will die a miserable death, and anyone can see he is a very unhappy and confused man. No wonder Ruto has premonitions about the death of Chebukati. Hope he gets buried with his stolen lot!

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