The Kimwarer and Arror dam issue seem to have resurrected the dead political noise in the country, attracting the attention of two of the biggest politicians in the country.
Deputy President William and opposition leader Raila Odinga on Friday exchanged bitter words over the said saga, with Ruto accusing Raila of politicizing the matter.
This was after the former Prime Minister bashed the DP over his remarks on Thursday which appeared to insinuate that no money was lost to graft in the saga.
Ruto also rubbished claims that 21 billion shillings have been lost after the contractor was declared bankrupt and unable to deliver, saying that only Ksh7 billion had been paid for the job.
But Raila would not have any of that, accusing Ruto and team of recklessly milking the nation dry in corruption during his Orange party National Executive Council meeting.
"They are bold, fearless, reckless and contemptuous but a criminal is a criminal and it should not be ethnicised,” he was quoted by Citizen Digital.
But in a rejoinder from Garissa where he had attended the pastoralists leadership forum, Ruto asked Raila to stop interfering in government operations.
He told the former Premier to concentrate on other matters or retire to Kibera and sell mandazi as he had promised to do earlier.
“There are people who told us that if they lose an election they will go and make mandazis. Why don’t they go and do that instead of bringing mandazi business into a very serious program that we are focusing on,” he said.
Ruto also accused the African Union Infrastructure Development envoy of using the narrative to frustrate the Jubilee government development agenda ahead of his 2022 bid.
Raila had in 2009 vowed to retire into the maandazi business in the slum if his 2009 bid to prevent encroachment into Mau Forest finished his career.
His campaign to have encroachers removed from the forest is one of the campaign tools that was used against him by Ruto and President Uhuru Kenyatta in the 2013 elections.