Details of how Uhuru Shielded Ruto from Being Hounded by Multi-Agencies now emerge

Kenyan Report has learned that President Uhuru Kenyatta has in-commensurable times shielded his Principal Assistant from the claws of multi-state agencies involved in fighting economic graft and other crimes.

Uhuru is said to have stopped these State Agencies from summoning or even arresting William Ruto to shed more light on various matters after his deputy’s name featured during various investigations of prime suspects.

Even as Ruto supporters froth and foam claiming that Uhuru has abandoned his deputy and betrayed him, to the contrary, the head of state has gone full-fledged to protect his embattled DP both locally and internationally.

Talk is rife, Uhuru is currently engaged in a secret mission to have Western capitals have travel bans on Ruto and his family lifted.

Sources in the know intimate that the president has turned down requests by detectives from the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission and Directorate of Criminal Investigations to summon Ruto to record statements after the DP’s name featured prominently in corruption allegations.

To summon the DP, the sleuths require the consent of the head of state due to the political ramifications the move would generate.

Apart from corruption allegations, the detectives have been restrained from summoning the DP over alarming outbursts especially when he publicly claimed three cabinet secretaries and principal secretaries from Mount Kenya region had hatched a plot to kill him.

Another rant was when at the burial of Sergeant Kipyegon Kenei, Ruto claimed the system wanted him out of the presidential race at whatever cost, meaning they wanted him dead.

Uhuru is trying to use other means of neutralizing Ruto without allowing for avenues that can cause direct confrontation like summoning or arrest. Last week he was left out during a critical meeting of top government officials chaired by the president.

During the virtual meeting that brought together all cabinet secretaries, principal secretaries and chief administrative secretaries, the deputy president was said to be hosting a delegation in his Karen residence as Uhuru outlined his government’s development priorities.

Insiders add that the laying of the ground to fix Ruto kicked off in earnest when the president removed the glamour at the DP’s Harambee Annex by designating The Presidency into Executive Office of the President, with Ruto being one among other senior officials.

This was followed by the creation of a new function at State House or within the executive, that of a parliamentary liaison which became the new bridge between the executive and parliament thus reducing Ruto’s role in running of the government.

The holder of this office is now the link between the executive and the national assembly and the direct link between party matters and the party leader.

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