Isaac Ruto accuses Jubilee of ignoring South Rift

Mr Ruto said it was mischievous for the Government to turn a blind eye to pertinent issues that were affecting the region despite the South Rift people voting for it to the last man.

He singled out the resettlement of the Mau evictees and crop failure in the region saying that the Government was not ready to address the plight of the region despite their frequent calls for interventions.

He said the issues the residents of the Rift Valley had raised against the Jubilee government were serious and claimed that the coalition's leadership was sweeping them under the carpet.

"I expected leaders who attended the Kuresoi meeting on Sunday to tell the people when the Mau evictees languishing in the four internally displaced persons (IDP) camps would be resettled, and why they have been promised compensation of Sh150,000 when those from other regions were paid Sh450,000," Ruto said.

He criticised Devolution Cabinet Secretary Ann Waiguru, claming she lied when she said that the all IDPs in the country had been resettled by the Government.

"President Uhuru Kenyatta and his Deputy William Ruto are in charge of the Jubilee administration and we are asking them to tell us what Ms Waiguru means when she goes public claiming all IDPs have been resettled? Does everybody mean everybody or it means members of a certain community?" Ruto asked.

He also demanded for the lifting of a land caveat by the Government in Nakuru County saying people were unable to develop their farms as a result.

The governor who has been a critic of the deputy president accused the Government of its failure to increase budgetary allocation to the counties by at least 45 per cent of the last audited national revenue for the implementation of development projects at the grassroots level.

He regretted that infrastructural facilities in schools were in a bad state yet the education function had not been devolved.

"We cannot talk of any meaningful development in a nation if the education sector is ignored. Infrastructural development in primary and secondary schools should be a shared function between the national and county governments," he said.