Ruto Responds to Raila’s ‘Rogue’ Attack on U.S.A Ambassador

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Friday August 18, 2023 –President William Ruto has reacted to Raila Odinga’s Thursday August 17 claims that the American Ambassador Meg Whitman had turned rogue.

Speaking shortly after holding a noon meeting with the U.S.A delegation that comprised Senator Chris Coons and Meg Whitman at the Statehouse Nairobi today Friday, President Ruto wondered why Odinga ended up referring to the U.S official as rogue.

Ruto, instead, turned the tide on Odinga by seeking to understand who between a person holding street demonstrations and the U.S official (who had stated facts on the past election) was rogue.

“I was asking myself between the people organizing demonstrations and destroying property and the US ambassador, who is rogue? I leave it up to the Kenyans to decide,” Ruto posed.

President William Ruto’s response corroborates that of his Foreign Affairs Cabinet Secretary Dr. Alfred Mutua who reminded Mr. Odinga that only the foreign docket can recall a foreign ambassador.

The CS, through a long statement yesterday, said it is only his Ministry that has the powers to order for a recall of an foreign envoy.

Raila, while addressing at the Devolution Conference in Eldoret yesterday Thursday August 17, termed US ambassador Meg Whitman as a “rogue” envoy following her claims that last year’s polls were the freest in Kenya’s history.

“Keep your mouth shut, otherwise we will call for your recall back to your country,” Odinga charged up amid applause from section of the delegation.

Undeterred Odinga added to warn Whitman against meddling in local politics and that, should she not consider shutting up her mouth, his supporters could force her out of the country in a process he described as ‘a recall’.

The opposition honcho, firmly, stated that Kenya is not a colony of the United States to be lectured on how to run its politics and governance.