I do not owe any community or individual political debt neither do they owe me, Deputy President William Ruto has declared.
His statements, seemingly a rejoinder to a vernacular song by a Mt. Kenya artist circulating online, comes hours after a section of Nyamira leaders took the artist head-on.
"The DP has supported President Uhuru Kenyatta for two consecutive elections. It will be betrayal if Central Kenya does not reciprocate the same," said MP Jerusha Momanyi.
Kitutu Masaba's Shadrack Mose added: "That kind of support by the DP to Uhuru remains important. Those circulating hatred through songs should be arrested."
A fortnight ago, a section of Kikuyu Council of Elders openly dismissed Ruto's 2022 bid insisting that he should retire along with Uhuru.
But at All-Saints Cathedral in Nairobi on Sunday, Ruto insisted that he only owes people true love of God.
"There is no community or individual who owes anybody. I also do not owe anyone. All I owe people is true God's love. The rest is not important," he said.
So controversial has been the song that even a section of Rift Valley leaders led by Water CS Samson Chergui has openly criticised it.