How Kilifi Governor Switched Off His Phone, Hid From Ruto After Agreeing to Meet Him

Deputy President William Ruto was recently treated to a rude shock by Kilifi governor Amason Kingi, who, it is claimed, had agreed to meet the DP, but changed his mind at the eleventh hour without prior notice.

According to Weekly Citizen, on the morning of Thursday, June 19, Ruto left Nairobi for Kilifi in a private jet and landed at Vipingo Airstrip. He was accompanied by his wife, Rachel, and one Farid Sheikh, a former banker who is in charge of the DP’s projects.

Ostensibly, before going to Coast, the DP had a phone conversation with the Kilifi governor, and there was an agreement for a secret meeting on the day of his arrival. However, to the surprise of Ruto, Kingi was nowhere and his phones were switched off. Attempts by one of the DP’s aides, Farouk Kibet to trace Kingi through close contacts, did not bear any fruit. It was not immediately clear why Kingi snubbed the DP whom he had promised to work with ahead of 2022 general elections.

Sources claim that Kingi, who is on his second and final term as governor, may have developed cold feet on Ruto for fear that associating with him now, could have provoked fresh investigations of corruption claims in his administration.

Allegations are suffice that Kingi has managed to weather many corruption storms in his administration, courtesy of interventions by his Mombasa counterpart Hassan Joho, who is said to be well connected within the investigative agencies and the system.

Ruto is now depending on MP Aisha Jumwa to market his presidential bid at the coast, but the DP camp has discovered Aisha popularity waned ever since she was linked to murder during a ward by-election in which one person was killed by a gunshot

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