[Deputy President William Ruto in a past event. He had a torrid moment when addressing Gusii residents due to IDP issue. Photo/Nation]
Deputy President William Ruto was not spared either during President Uhuru Kenyatta’s Friday tour to Nyamira which was rather brief than usual.
Earlier, President Kenyatta had endured difficulties in addressing a mammoth crowd with locals chanting slogans in solidarity with IDPs.
And Ruto also got a fair share of locals frustration with those attending shouting anti-Jubilee slogan when he was given chance to address them.
“We have nothing really against Uhuru but Ruto is the person behind our frustrations as IDP,” says Wilfred Motari, an IDP who survived from Kuresoi in 2007.
“The DP did nothing to stop clashes just here in the border and there is no way he can talk of peace which he failed to bring when we needed him,” adds Maureen Kerubo, another survivor of 2007/08 violence.
Few meters from where the top Jubilee leadership addressed a rally, thousands of people mainly from Gusii community were displaced from Chepilat border Township.
In his previous tours, President Kenyatta has had a warm welcome but the recent fiasco over disbursement of IDP funds where it is believed brokers carried the day, locals seems to be shifting from his Jubilee party if at least what they say is anything to go by.