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Baringo Senator Gideon Moi during a past event. [Kipsang Joseph/Standard]
In January 2006, 14 Rift Valley MPs converged in Koibatek, Baringo County, and announced that they would support William Ruto for President in 2007.
The man behind the ‘Eldama Ravine Declaration’ that culminated in Ruto being crowned the Kalenjin spokesman was former Cabinet Minister Musa Sirma, who was then Eldama Ravine MP.
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