How Alfred Keter is Sabotaging DP Ruto - Mandago Reveals

Uasin Gishu Governor Jackson Mandago has accused Nandi Hills MP Alfred Keter of sabotaging Deputy President William Ruto's 2022 bid for the presidency.

Accompanied by his Nandi counterpart Stephen Sang and legislators Cornelly Serem (Aldai), Oscar Sudi (Kapseret), Julius Melly (Tindiret ) and Wilson Kogo (Chesumei), the leaders noted that the DP needed support from across the country thus the need to share out positions.

“How reasonable is it for a few MPs to insist on holding onto a few committee positions at the expense of Ruto’s 2022 aspirations. The region has worked for 2022 and will not lose all that now for the sake of a few errant MPs,” stated Governor Mandago.

President Uhuru Kenyatta and Ruto's leadership line-up for key parliamentary seats was largely influenced by 2022 succession politics, regional balance, and gender balance.

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The Uasin Gishu county boss called for dialogue among all Rift Valley legislators, adding that their divisions were threatening Ruto’s ambitions.

Plans by the ruling Jubilee Party to oust four of its defiant members – three from Rift Valley – have divided the region’s leadership.

Keter was elected Labour Committee chairman, as Silas Tiren (Moiben) was voted as head of Agriculture and Livestock Committee, James Gakuya (Embakasi North) for the Broadcasting Committee and Kangogo Bowen (Marakwet East) was elected the vice chairman of the Environment, Water, and Mineral Resources committee, against their party’s wishes.

The four defiant legislators hit out at President Kenyatta and DP Ruto for muzzling Parliament from doing its oversight role on the excesses of the executive.

“Parliamentarians in this region will not allow one man’s ambitions to ruin this region; we live in the present and 2022 will take care of itself,” stated Tuwei.

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Tiren, who has had frosty relations with Ruto since 2013, remained adamant he was elected by MPs in the committee and his constituents and would not be pushed around for political expediency.