REVEALED! Inside Ruto’s Plan To Dismantle The ‘System’s’ Plan To Stop His Presidency

Deputy President William Ruto is assembling a group of civil society institutions and activists who have been holding discussions aimed at creating what they call a “coalition of the unlikely.”

According to Daily Nation, the civil society groups have been operating under the auspices of the Open Governorship Partnership, a global initiative that former US President Barack Obama launched in 2011 at the United Nations headquarters to mobilize civil society to push for openness and accountability.

Dr Korir Sing’oei, the Head of Law and Policy at the Office of the Deputy President, has been tasked to whip various leading civil society groups to oppose President Uhuru Kenyatta and ODM leader Raila Odinga’s Building Bridges Initiative (BBI), with the final plan being joining forces to shoot it down if it gets to a referendum.

Both Uhuru and Raila’s allies have been open to the idea of expanding the Executive, a position the DP has often criticized.

Dr Sing’oei is using the Open Government Partnership to mobilize friendly civil society organisations for William Ruto 2022 presidential bid.

“I cannot speak about the issue of the DP and the civil society but if there will be a convergence I don’t think it should be surprising. Some of the issues being articulated by various civil society groups are as a result of their studies and polls,” he said.

“It’s a multi-sector partnership that brings together various sectors together. It’s a useful platform in advancing accountability and openness in government. It’s not about politics.”

Members of the Open Government Partnership include prominent civil society groups. Some of the institutions have been donating funds covertly in pushing for that agenda, multiple sources said.

DP Ruto chairs the Open Government Partnership while Dr Sing’oei is the convener.

Towards the end of 2018, the DP suffered a setback after he was invited to an Open Government Partnership meeting that was being held in Canada but he was denied clearance for unknown reasons.

The Open Government Partnership has been operating from the Office of the Deputy President after efforts to gazette its operations failed for unknown reasons, which some blame on objections from intelligence officials.

About a year after being branded as “evil society”, the groups quietly found solace at the Office of the Deputy President, where they have been operating quasi-legally outside of government structures.

Whereas several associations have denied working directly to support Dr Ruto’s presidential ambitions, they have said that there was nothing wrong with working from the office of the country’s second in command.

As part of their progress, Dr Sing’oei has mobilised former Raila ally Prof Yash Pal Ghai to lead the intellectual debate against the BBI report.

Prof Ghai was Dr Sing’oei’s boss at Katiba Institute before he was hired to work at the DP’s office.

Commentaries by Prof Ghai have already irked Paul Mwangi, Mr Odinga’s legal adviser who is also a joint secretary in the BBI committee.

“In April 2004, I called out Yash Pal Ghai, in an article in the Sunday Nation, for taking on intellectual positions depending on the goal he wanted to achieve. I said he was guilty of intellectual infidelity. He’s doing the same thing today regarding BBI,” Mr Mwangi tweeted on June 27.

On Saturday, Prof Ghai said although he has similar persuasions on the Constitution as the DP, he was not collaborating with Dr Ruto “for many reasons”, including his own record and motivations now.

“I think civil society groups would have done more to question the bona fide politicians. I do not think that there are fundamental problems with the Constitution.

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