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Kilifi family that gifted President Ruto a rooster seeks help to bury kin

The family of Mwatsuma Nyale displays a photo they took with President William Ruto in 2019. [Nehemiah Okwembah, Standard]

A family from Kitsoeni village in Chonyi Sub County, Kilifi is appealing to President William Ruto to help them bury their father, who once gifted him a rooster.

The family of 85-year-old Mwatsuma Nyale said that Ruto visited their homestead in 2019 while he was the Deputy President, during the launch of the Rural Electrification Project. The president, then DP, switched on the lights at Mr. Nyale's two-roomed Makuti thatched house.

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