RUTO FURY OVER LOSING HIS BUDGET...He has to go through State House

[Ab-Titchaz]

This is not good...I don't know who is advising Kamwana

There is the ICC issue where Ruto feels Uhuru's men framed him which has resulted in a frosty
relationship between the two. And then this....

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RUTO FURY OVER LOSING HIS BUDGET

DEPUTY President William Ruto is furious that the financial budget allocated for his office has been transferred back to State House. Ruto's office will now have to seek approval from State House for almost every expenditure.

"The Office of the Deputy President is no longer allowed to incur expenditure without approval from the Presidency," said a senior officer in the Office of the President yesterday.

State House Controller Lawrence Lenayapa referred the Star to the Treasury secretary Henry Rotich whose secretary said he was in meetings yesterday afternoon.

Presidential spokesman Manoah Esipisu is in South Africa with President Uhuru Kenyatta and did not respond to our inquiries.

Yesterday Ruto summoned Lenayapa, his Principal Administrative Secretary Daniel Wambura, his chief of Staff Maryanne Keitany and other senior officials including his controller of budget and the chief accountant to a meeting in his Karen office.

"The meeting went on and the DP demanded clarification on a number of issues. Lenayapa provided some answers but asked that he consults with the Head of Public Service Joseph Kinyua and the President on other issues," said a source at the meeting.

It is not clear when Ruto's vote was moved to the Office of the President but multiple sources told the Star that it was taken away while he was attending his trial in the Hague.

As a result there have been delays in processing allowances for Ruto's staff, some who have been with him at the Hague.

"The Office of the DP cannot hire anyone without approval from the Presidency and can not buy tissue paper unless it is approved by the same office. We have no idea what this means," said a URP MP yesterday.

In another meeting on Tuesday, Ruto almost fired Keitany when he learnt that appointment letters of some staff, some in his press service, had been revoked without his knowledge while he was away.

At that meeting senators Kipchumba Murkomen and Charles Keter reportedly pleaded with Ruto to give Keitany a second chance.

"The boss was very upset with Keitany because he could not understand why the letters of appointments had been revoked yet he personally ensured some of them were written before they joined his office. Some of those affected were senior staff who left their jobs to join him when he took over the office," said the source.

The new staff have gone for months without pay and some have been grumbling about how Keitany has handled them.

The Deputy President is the principal assistant of the President and deputizes for the President in the execution of his constitutional duties. Article 134 of the constitution states that when the President is absent or temporarily incapacitated, the Deputy President shall act as the President.

When Uhuru's trial starts at the Hague in February 2014, Ruto will presumably have to deputise for the president for lengthy periods.

Ruto's office is run by Keitany but also has an administrative secretary, an economic advisor, and an adviser responsible for food and climate change. He also has his private secretary, communication secretary and legal adviser.
Most of these officials deputise equivalent positions in the Office of the President.

The annual budget for the Office of the President is Sh1.1 billion for development and Sh3.1 billion for recurrent expenditure. The allocation given to the Deputy President was drawn from this vote.

RUTO FURY OVER LOSING HIS BUDGET | The Star

 

[Ab-Titchaz]

mfianchi, Ngongo, Crucial Man, ukwelikitugani

Angalieni hii seketa kwa umakini maana kuna kitu nyuma ya pazia.

...Jamaa amekua Hague akipambana na kesi yake, kumbe huku nyuma wakuu wa Jubilee (wenye chama)
wameamua kumkata miguu. Jamaa sasa anaonyeshwa bayana kua ni nani mwenye serikali. Kwa kweli
hata katika safari ya mamba kenge wamo. Huyu Ruto ni kenge tu na akifanya mchezo pia kule Hague atabaki.
Kawekwa kama chambo vile. Uhuru kapiga kelele kama aliyepagawa hadi kesi yake ikahairishwa hadi
mwakani. Yote hio ilmradi tu aweze hitma ya mwenzake kabla hajatia mguu. Ruto akibanwa tu, nd'o
jamaa haendi kamwe.

 

[Julius Kaisari]

Ab-Titchaz
Salaam.
Rutto muda si mrefu atajua the true color ya "wenye nchi". Hata Hague nakuunga mkono,asipoangalia atabaki huko.

 

[Ngongo]

Mkuu Ab-Titchaz kweli nimeamini Uhuru ni mwisho wa maarifa Ruto atajuta siku aliyokutana na hawa mafia.

mfianchi, Ngongo, Crucial Man, ukwelikitugani

Angalieni hii seketa kwa umakini maana kuna kitu nyuma ya pazia.

...Jamaa amekua Hague akipambana na kesi yake, kumbe huku nyuma wakuu wa Jubilee (wenye chama)
wameamua kumkata miguu. Jamaa sasa anaonyeshwa bayana kua ni nani mwenye serikali. Kwa kweli
hata katika safari ya mamba kenge wamo. Huyu Ruto ni kenge tu na akifanya mchezo pia kule Hague atabaki.
Kawekwa kama chambo vile. Uhuru kapiga kelele kama aliyepagawa hadi kesi yake ikahairishwa hadi
mwakani. Yote hio ilmradi tu aweze hitma ya mwenzake kabla hajatia mguu. Ruto akibanwa tu, nd'o
jamaa haendi kamwe.

 

[FJM]

Prince Muigai keshaanza kumshikisha adabu huyo 'commoner? The Hague anapiga foleni kukaguliwa kabla ya kusimama mbele ya hakimu, na huku nyumbani nako anatakiwa kupiga foleni kuomba fedha! na mmbaado!

 

[Koborer]

mfianchi, Ngongo, Crucial Man, ukwelikitugani

Angalieni hii seketa kwa umakini maana kuna kitu nyuma ya pazia.

...Jamaa amekua Hague akipambana na kesi yake, kumbe huku nyuma wakuu wa Jubilee (wenye chama)
wameamua kumkata miguu. Jamaa sasa anaonyeshwa bayana kua ni nani mwenye serikali. Kwa kweli
hata katika safari ya mamba kenge wamo. Huyu Ruto ni kenge tu na akifanya mchezo pia kule Hague atabaki.
Kawekwa kama chambo vile. Uhuru kapiga kelele kama aliyepagawa hadi kesi yake ikahairishwa hadi
mwakani. Yote hio ilmradi tu aweze hitma ya mwenzake kabla hajatia mguu. Ruto akibanwa tu, nd'o
jamaa haendi kamwe.

Doesn't Kamwana care where he is going to get votes next? Screwing Ruto will expose him and no other tribe will ever trust his group.

 

[Dhuks]

Haya tutawaona mtafanyeje sababu yeye mwenyewe akakaana

My budget not moved to Uhuru, says Ruto

DEPUTY President William Ruto has denied that financial budget meant for his office has been transferred to the Presidency.
The Star published a story yesterday that the Deputy President was furious that his budgetary allocation had been moved to the Presidency.
The story, based on multiple sources, also claimed some staff in the DP's office have gone without pay for months while others had their contracts revoked.
"The article in its entirety and fact is a fabricated falsehood, malicious concoctions and geared towards devious schemes of detractors of the government and should be treated with contempt. For the record, the Presidency is determined to be a service unit devoid of the big-man syndrome and the workings are seamless, synchronised and focused," said a statement sent to the Star last evening.
"The Star newspaper should take the earliest opportunity to correct the erroneous impression it has created."
On Tuesday, Ruto is understood to have summoned State House Controller Lawrence Lenayapa, his principal administrative secretary Daniel Wambura, chief of Staff Maryanne Keitany and other senior officials including the controller of budget and the chief accountant to a meeting in his Karen office.
Ruto is Uhuru's principal Deputy and can act as President in the latter's absence.

- See more at: My budget not moved to Uhuru, says Ruto | The Star

 

[Kobello]

"Ruto's Fury" .... or may be "Ruto is Furious"

Ruto Fury sidhani kama ni kiingereza sahihi, ila hilo ni gazeti la Kenya so most likely watakuwa sawa ila naomba mnisahihishe wadau.

 

[Mtumishi Wetu]

Si alijiona mjanja kumtosa Raila, sasa atajua hao ni watu gani!!!

 

[Dhuks]

"Ruto's Fury" .... or may be "Ruto is Furious"

Ruto Fury sidhani kama ni kiingereza sahihi, ila hilo ni gazeti la Kenya so most likely watakuwa sawa ila naomba mnisahihishe wadau.

Unakosoa hilo?:A S 39::A S 39:

 

[Dr. Ng'ida D. Mollel]

Not fare for the DP to be treated like a labourer

 

[Kobello]

unakosoa hilo?:a s 39::a s 39:

yes.....

 

[Ab-Titchaz]

Doesn't Kamwana care where he is going to get votes next? Screwing Ruto will expose him and no other tribe will ever trust his group.

Kamanda,

knowing Kenya politics as it is, I believe Ruto can easily be replaced by Gideon because the former
has excess baggage coming from the '07 PEV and his dalliance with one Raila Odinga so to speak.

I have heard this card being bandied around for long even before the march elections in some credible
circles. The final word belongs to UK though and if he chooses to listen to some old guard boiling over
from the Kibaki era.

Interesting times these are.

 

[MNYISANZU]

Ruto atajuta

 

[livefire]

Kamanda,

knowing Kenya politics as it is, I believe Ruto can easily be replaced by Gideon because the former
has excess baggage coming from........

let me respond to this part, the Nandis/marakwet/kipsigis, tugen and anything prone to running read (kalenjin) will never betray Ruto, its a tested card.

that community is super charged this time round, only thing that can do Ruto in is a fall out with UK.

This is impractical at this point.

 

[Jammu Africa]

Sasa nyinyi,,,mmepotea sana:smile-big:kama mtayafuata yale ya,,The Star.

Kama yangelitokana na,,,the Nation ama,,Standard,,,at least,,,ningeyafikiria.

Lakini,,the Star,,,Kenya's leading gutter press,,,be serious my friend.

Kwani,,,lazima Uhuru atakua mjinga sana,,,,,kuyafanya hayo yanayosemwa.

Ni kama,,,kukata mti,,,kama yuko,,juu.

Hawa watu ni smart,,UhuRuto,,,hawa si akina Kibaki na Raila,,,ma champions wa
wakataji miti,,wakiwa juu ya hiyo miti.

Hawa ni UhuRuto,,ambao wamesoma mengi kutokana na uhusiano wa Kibaki
na Raila.

Tena,,,kama uko ukweli wowote,,,basi nakuhakikishieni kwamba Ruto si mtu
muoga,,,ni mtu ambaye husema hapo hapo bila kungoja,,,when things goes
wrong.

He does not wait for a gutter press,,,,, speak for,,him.

That is not Ruto,,i know.

He will say it,,,himself.

 

[Koborer]

Kamanda,

knowing Kenya politics as it is, I believe Ruto can easily be replaced by Gideon because the former
has excess baggage coming from the '07 PEV and his dalliance with one Raila Odinga so to speak.

I have heard this card being bandied around for long even before the march elections in some credible
circles. The final word belongs to UK though and if he chooses to listen to some old guard boiling over
from the Kibaki era.

Interesting times these are.

Well may be, but this will be suicidal. The Kalenjin bloc is solidly behind Ruto. Gideon does not command such a large following among the Kalenjins as does Ruto. If Ruto decides to throw his weight behind Raila as a result of betrayal then Kamwana will be done. Remember the Luhiayas and the Kambas too are not happy.

 

[Dr. Job]

Haya tutawaona mtafanyeje sababu yeye mwenyewe akakaana

- See more at: My budget not moved to Uhuru, says Ruto | The Star

Denying does not make the matter go away. Kenyan politicians are known to do that and therefore this angle carries no weight. Even the hustler denied that private jet trip that was illegally sanctioned by Statehouse and ended up racking millions of Ksh in bills. Later he agreed it took place and now we are sitting in those musical chair commissions that add up to zilch!

 

[Dr. Job]

Folks,

This is definitely a reactive adjustment curtailing the new Constitution.

The fact is that the new Constitution gives the Deputy President substantive powers which the Kenyatta team are hereby slowly mutilating in not so subtle ways.

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Unlike the old Constitution, the new one essentially gives Ruto executive powers to act as President while Kenyatta is away. It is in black and white. From the aforementioned developments, it is quite clear that Kenyatta handlers are uncomfortable with this constitutional reality. They are beginning to claw Ruto’s executive powers back –which is actually unconstitutional.

Whereas they know Kenyatta CANNOT sack Ruto (a Deputy President is equally elected in the same ticket), they have decided to rob him financial muscle and render his office impotent.

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The moment you withdraw the powers over the purse (budget) from any public office, you essentially render it moot. In this case, Kenyatta’s handlers are transferring budgetary approval powers for the DP’s office away from Ruto, to another entity referred as “the Office of the President” –yet in reality to Mr. Kinyua. That is just code word of saying Ruto requests for spending all have to be approved and monitored by the Head of the Civil Service. The analogy of the toilet paper and pens sums it up well.

This requirement means that Ruto is technically going to be answerable to Kenyatta’s sidekick and Head of Civil Service Mr. Kinyua. Ruto cannot even employ staff without Kinyua’s approval. Ruto is thus (unconstitutionally) being made number 3 in government.

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These are the retrogressive antics that Francis Muthaura was good at during Kibaki’s era. It is a very stark reminder of Muthaura and Raila’s fights during the latter’s tenure as Prime Minister. It exposes this fallacy of a united Jubilee government. It wasn’t gonna happen anyway!


This is the art of consolidation of power through absolute control over the purse (money). It is a fight that Ruto will definitely lose. It is essentially why the Ruto private jet story has been kept in the headlines for long –as a justification to deny the latter budgetary powers over his own office.

The crux of this power consolidation urgency (in my view) is in the event the President is absent from the country. It technically renders Ruto a figurehead answerable to Mr. Kinyua who substantively stays in-charge while Kenyatta is away. That’s the bottom-line in this story.

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Kinyua was actually appointed during Ruto’s absence (while in Hague) and very likely without the latter’s consultation. It was a master-stoke power game from Kenyatta’s folks which they anticipated Ruto won’t publicly begrudge. I do not know whether Ruto will accept to have his wings in government completely clipped this way. I suspect there will be some power and money fights between Ruto and Kinyua in the near future, if they haven’t actually started. In the process, Kenyatta surges ahead of the fray, assuming the Big man status. Very Machiavellian!

This is the signature trademark of the Mt. Kenya mafia – absolute control over the collective Kenyan purse. Welcome to the “nusu mkeka” terrain bwana Ruto.

Dr. Job