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Kenya: Sossion Declares Support for Ruto and His Uda Party

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Nairobi — Firebrand trade unionist Wilson Sossion has vowed to support Deputy President William Ruto in his presidential bid next year.

Sossion, who is a nominated Member of Parliament, said he is fully behind Ruto’s bottom-up economic model which Ruto has described as the only solution to challenges facing the country.

“In the world, the bottom-up economic agenda is pro-common man, an agenda of equality and prosperity for the common Mwananchi. Your excellency Deputy President I can tell you with the choice of this economic model, I count you as one of the brave leaders in Africa,” Sossion said, speaking publicly for the first time on his political vehicle for the 2022 election.

The former Secretary General of the Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT) said Ruto’s model will be a game changer to the welfare of workers in the country. He noted that the 2022 polls will be based on economic revolution.

“From the labour world, even in the US, labour unions have democratic parties. This is because democratic parties will always talk of the bottom up economic model and this is so because in those economies the rich control things from the top there and impose things on the poor. As workers, we are with you 100 per cent and you all know that workers respect me,” noted Sossion.

In August, there were reports that the Nominated legislator who was nominated to Parliament by the Raila Odinga’s Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) was scheming to join UDA as he strategises to vie for the Senate seat in Bomet.