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Kenya: DP Ruto Concludes Us Tour, Heads to London

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Nairobi — Deputy President William Ruto has completed his leg of the tour in United States of America and is now set to tour London in the United Kingdom.

Ruto wound his US tour after meeting with Kenyans living in diaspora.

“USA leg, big success. Thank you America🇺🇸🇰🇪 Now on to London,” tweeted Ababu Namwaba, Ruto’s presidential campaign International Relations Advisor.

In London, Ruto is expected to meet senior UK Government officials, visit the National Counter-Terrorism Center and speak at both the Commonwealth Secretariat and the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House).

He will also engage the Kenyan Diaspora in the UK and pay a courtesy call on the archbishop of Canterbury, His Grace Justin Welby.

Ruto left the country on 27th of February this year for a 12-day tour of the United States and the United Kingdom where he will also meet Kenyans in the Diaspora.

In his USA tour, Ruto has revealed that plans are underway to rig the August polls, gave details on the frosty relationship between him and President Uhuru Kenyatta as well as the impediments of delivery of the Big Four agenda.

Ruto singled out blackmail, threats and intimidation as some of the biggest obstacles to democratic elections as Kenya braces for the August 9 general elections.

Ruto who was speaking in Maryland during his tour of United States said that Kenyans want to make the choice of their preferred leaders without being intimidated by anyone including the state machinery who have been on the spot lately for target some politicians ahead of the polls.