Why Uhuruto duo cannot be relied on

President Uhuru Kenyatta (left) and his deputy William Ruto. 

Fantasy and reality are diametrically opposed, a truism that escaped Uhuru Kenyatta and William Ruto by a mile in 2013. But you can give it to Kenyatta for adroitly stepping back; leaving Ruto to do the spade work. The zeal put into it has left Ruto with such an accumulation of political grime it threatens to suffocate him. He evokes so much antipathy, hostile crowds heckle him.

You can give it to Ruto too, for when it comes to bluster; he is a master of the game, an attribute that has rubbed off on the self-immolated United Republican Party orphans Aden Duale and Kipchumba Murkomen; the two Ruto acolytes whose sun rises and sets with Kenya’s deputy president.