Deputy President William Ruto has been subjected to unending humiliation in the government, Kapseret Member of Parliament Oscar Sudi has claimed.
The vocal legislator said the DP continues to be dishonored so he can get frustrated and drop his 2022 presidential bid.
Sudi claimed powerful forces in the government have been trying to link Ruto to corruption by reviving old graft cases, with an aim to portray him as a politician who lacks integrity.
Speaking in Turbo, Uasin Gishu County on Sunday, he further alleged the media has been used to run a smear campaign against the DP, as well as being denied some privileges he is entitled as the second-in-command.
Sudi said all that has allegedly been done to cut him down to size, and make him unfavorable in the 2022 race to State House.
“They have tried the corruption trap, they have tried to write all manner of things in newspapers, they have even chased him from government houses and also reduced his security team, but we know all those schemes,” Sudi said during a service at St. Mary's Catholic Church Osorongai.
The Jubilee MP further claimed there was a plan by the handshake team, which support President Uhuru Kenyatta and ODM leader Raila Odinga, to use Building Bridges Initiative (BBI), to run a political campaign against Ruto.
“They thought he would also oppose the BBI rallies, but we have accepted. We know all the tricks they have and this time it will not be easy,” Sudi said.