Stop asking foreigners for funding, Ruto tells Raila

Deputy President William Ruto is welcomed by dancers at St Mathew’s Bukhalire Boys High School in Butula, Busia County, where he was the guest in a funds drive for four schools yesterday. [photo: BENJAMIN SAKWA/standard]

Deputy President William Ruto yesterday told the Opposition not to ask for support from foreign nations as Kenya prepares for next year’s General Elections.

Speaking a day after ODM leader Raila Odinga urged Western countries to finance Opposition parties in Africa, Ruto claimed a similar campaign had been spearheaded by the Opposition when he and President Uhuru Kenyatta had cases at the International Criminal Court.