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Anger over 2022 politics boils over in Uhuru and Ruto camps

By Wainaina Ndung’u and Roselyne Obala | Aug. 25, 2019

President Uhuru Kenyatta, Deputy President William Ruto, Muranga Governor Mwangi Wa Iria and Wiper leader Kalonzo Musyoka during the burial service of musician John De’Matthew in Gatanga, Muranga County, yesterday. [DPPS]

Yesterday’s declaration by President Uhuru Kenyatta that he has no personal friends and Thursday’s tongue-lashing against “dynasty politics” has increased tensions in the Jubilee leaders’ political camps.

The disintegrating chemistry between the two Jubilee principals was apparent at burial of benga musician John De Mathew in Mukurwe, Gatanga, Murang’a yesterday.

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