Runyenjes MP Cecile Mbarire(Left) and former home affairs assistant minister Beatrice Kones (Right) in a chat. [Photo/The Star].Bomet East parliamentary aspirant Beatrice Kones has claimed that Chama Cha Mashinani party leader Isaac Ruto hass funded his son Kevin Kipngetich to run against her in the August  8, polls.Kipngetich is set to run for the seat against his mother  after he won the CCM ticket. Kones is the widow to the late Home Affairs assistant minister Kipkalya Kones.The politician has revealed that tensions are high in her family and could even split it up because governor Ruto pushed her son to run against her."Ruto wants to see my family disintegrate so that he does not face any challenge in his bid to rule the Kipsigis politics," she said.Mrs Kones said she was not riding on her late husband's famed and told his critics that she is ready to contest for the seat."Ruto expected me to vie on CCM so that his party looks strong because of my political strength, but after I abandoned his camp he started working sleeplessly to bring me down," she said.Kevin Kipngetich Kalya who won the Bomet East CCM parliamentary ticket. He may face off with his mother Beatrice Kones who is eying the Jubilee ticket.Mrs Kones claimed that Ruto must be using money to lure his son to run for the same seat.However, Kipngetich dismissed the claims that Ruto was behind his bid for the parliamentary seat."I am on my own in this and the allegations that I am being pushed is not true at all," he said."I officially entered politics in 2013 but because my mother was defending her seat, which she clinched after the death of my father, I went for the Langata seat in Nairobi county, but this time round I am back to where I think I can play politics well," he added.However, when contacted Ruto said he had nothing to do with Kipngetich candidature for Bomet East."Kevin joined CCM on his own accord like all the other members. He declared interest for the Bomet East parliamentary seat, contested in the party primaries and won against three other candidates. He became the party's flag bearer through a free, fair and democratic process. He is the people's candidate," said Ruto."I have no issues with Mrs Kones at all. But politics is about policies and numbers and CCM does not engage in name calling, character assassination or side shows as our campaign is issue-based," he added.

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