DP Ruto Takes Break from Active Campaigns, Leaves for 12-day UK, US Tour

Deputy President William Ruto is off to the United Kingdom and United States of America for a 12-day tour.

The DP will take a break from active politics to attend to various issues in the foreign countries.

He will be in the company of his Presidential campaign secretariat Governor Josephat Nanok.

“Accompanying DP William Ruto on an official whistle tour of the West, with a post 09 August 2022 message of hope and a better future for Kenyans and our nation. Lord, continue guiding and protecting us,” he said.

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Kwale Governor Salim Mvurya also accompanied the second-in-command to the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA).

His head of International relations Ababu Namwamba while announcing the tour said the UDA party leader was honouring invites by senior officials and top policy institutes in Washington, DC, and London.

“In Washington, DC the Deputy President is scheduled to meet, among others, officials of the State Department and the Pentagon as well as the US Government National Security Council (NSC) Advisor,” said Ababu.

The DP will speak on foreign policy, democracy, and governance, and expound his economic vision for Kenya and Africa.

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He will also speak at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and at the University of Arizona’s Washington Entrepreneurship Hub.

The tour of the US will end with the presidential aspirant meeting with Kenyans in the diaspora.

“In London, Ruto will meet senior UK Government officials, visit the NationalCounter-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,” Ababu added.

The trip, the former Foreign Affairs CAS said, will seek to further strengthen ties between Kenya and its traditional friends.

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Earlier, Kenyans in the Diaspora had expressed apprehension over the DP’s tour.

Through Dr Shem Ochoudho who is the global chairman of Kenya Diaspora Alliance, Kenyans said they were wary of tour as the DP is a person of interest in the International Criminal Court and is a diplomatic threat.

They also stated that the DP almost caused a tiff between Kenya and the DR Congo.

This was after Dr Ruto claimed that Congo was a ready market for milk as she does not have cows.

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Further, Dr Ochoudho stated, the DP’s association with Turkish terror suspect Harun Aydin was nothing to laugh about.

Aydin who was deported last year was in DP’s entourage to Uganda. The trip did not happen.

“He is also known for sabotaging the government’s war on corruption,” he added.