KENYA: Bomet Governor Isaac Ruto has dismissed threats by MPs from United Republican Party (URP) to initiate move to expel him from the party for criticising Jubilee Government on its commitment to devolution.
Ruto added: “It is then that they used to talk of expelling Karl Max from university of Nairobi. I thought Jubilee was supposed to be digital, the statements I heard today (Wednesday) are worse than analogue but belong to the days of the telegraph.”
The Governor clarified that there were no talk of ODM/URP merger during a fundraiser in Homa Bay at the weekend and that he was in Jubilee coalition to stay but would not shy away from pointing out where the Government was not doing well in devolution.
He said that Governors were working together to ensure devolution works and that there were no engagements or talks whatsoever among them on how political parties are supposed to relate.
Ruto said it was in the authority of Treasury Principal Secretary Dr Kamau Thuge that the government is making arrangements to return roads and rural electrification funds from Counties to the National government and be re-allocated to Kenya Rural Roads Authority and Kenya the Kenya Urban Roads Authority (KURA).
“Kenyans agreed to forget analogue and go digital but no one told them to forget about dialogue. They should not consider
dialogue as analogue. If they are digital,” Ruto added.
He said that anyone who wants to roll back the wheels of history will meet Kenyans out in the field and they will have nothing to tell them adding that Jubilee should not forget that 2017 election is closing in.
“Let us focus on implementing devolution and development programs and stop being petty. When we point out issues it does not mean we do not belong to the Jubilee,” Ruto said.
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