Vocal lawyer and author Miguna Miguna has predicted the arrest and prosecution of Deputy President William Ruto over graft allegations.
He claimed the renewed fight on corruption which is being led by President Uhuru Kenyatta was targeting Ruto, adding independent agencies such as the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI), Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) and the Judiciary would be used to put him down.
In a tweet on Tuesday, Miguna wondered what the DP and his supporters will do after he is arrested and the courts bars him from accessing his office, just like in the case of Kiambu Governor Ferdinand Waititu.
"What will William Ruto and his supporters do when Despot Uhuru Kenyatta orders his arrest by the DCI or EACC then pressurizes the Judiciary to apply the Ferdinand Waititu ruling by ordering him to stay away from office?" he posed.
Miguna is not the first politician to opine that powerful forces were out to scuttle Ruto's 2022 presidential bid.
Over the weekend, National Assembly Chief Whip Ben Washiali said the arrest of Treasury Cabinet Secretary Henry Rotich over Arror and Kimwarer dam scandal was a plot to silence the DP politically.
“Those seen to be front runners in our elective politics are usually targeted by political nemesis through deliberate smear campaigns like in the case of Ruto,” he said as quoted by the Standard.
“They decided to implicate him (Ruto) in the Kimwarer and Arror dams scandal because for a long time, they had attempted to make him look bad in the eyes of Kenyans,” added the Mumias East MP, who is a close ally of the DP.
Even those rallying behind Uhuru have been calling for Ruto's resignation and that of Senate Majority Leader Kipchumba Murkomen over the dams scam.
Murkomen is the Senator for Elgeyo-Marakwet where Arror and Kimwarer dams are meant to be constructed.
“DP Ruto and his henchmen, including Murkomen, came out to publicly state that there was no impropriety in the matter. The indictment by the Director of Public Prosecution is, by extension, also an indictment of the DP and the senator. They should apologise for misleading Kenyans,” said Suba South MP John Mbadi last week.