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Is Uhuru -Ruto 'marriage' a scam ?

It won’t be long now till William Ruto sheds his already common tears in public again. The deputy president has taken too much already. He should be letting go anytime from now. He probably doesn’t understand yet why his political boat keeps rocking time and again. The answer is however very simple and out in plain sight. What’s more, lots of people had foreseen this a while back.

Unlike what most people believe, the good William Ruto is not a man in quest of power. He has never been in politics for the sheer power it comes with but for the material gains it brings. It is for this reason that he very easily settled for the vice president’s slot rather than the top post and understandably so. It is this quest for wealth that has put Ruto right on the path of antagonism not just with those he shares political platforms with but also his mates back in the Rift.

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