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Ruto: One tenacious political survivor

By Juma Kwayera

Eldoret North MP William Ruto first ‘real’ money was made in insurance brokerage. When the dust settled on the 1992 hotly contested election in which he campaigned for former President Moi together with his erstwhile bosom friend who chaired a political brokerage outfit known as YK’92, Ruto formed a real estate agency with a Kalenjin name that translated as “I have fled and left them with their teeth/mouth open”.

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