Deputy President William Ruto is a bitter man after the launch of the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) report, Central Organisation of Trade Unions (COTU) Secretary General Francis Atwoli has said.
Speaking at Jaramogi Odinga Primary School in Bondo, Siaya County on Saturday, Atwoli said that the facial expression by the second in command during the launch of the report left behind so many questions.
He divulged that Ruto kept on making different facial expression because he was not happy at all. Atwoli, who has vowed to block Ruto from power, claimed that he was indeed a bitter man following the unveiling of the contents of the report.
"If you looked at him on the day of the BBI, he was turning red, turning black and someone like that can finish you at night. Governor, you and me we started fighting him sometime back. He is still a young leader. If you leave the people of Eastern to join his camp and my daughter is still young, he will snatch her," he said in part. (Kama ulimwangalia siku ya BBI anakuwa mweusi, anakuwa mwekundu, mtu namna hiyo kama ni usiku ananyoga wewe na wewe gavana na mimi tulianza kupinga yeye zamani. Na huyu ni kijana. Ukiwacha watu wa Eastern waende kwake na baba unaishi na yeye mtoto wangu ni mdogo sana Ruto atang'anya wewe).
Ruto has affirmed that there is no need for a referendum over the BBI report. He wants the different levels of the government to address the issues highlighted in the report to the latter. He argues that he has gone through the content and sees no reason to waste time and taxpayers' money on a referendum.