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President William Ruto's griping about, and raging against, the previous administration in his interview last week with journalists from carefully selected media organisations achieved one key thing: It tarred the Raila-led opposition with the same brush of the former administration. The president depicted both as partners in human rights abuses.
Ruto's message to the public was: The Handshake-Raila's bromance with former President Uhuru Kenyatta between March 2018 and August 2022-was an unholy bilateralism in which one side committed the crime and the other looked the other way, and both are accountable.
The target, however, appeared to have been more about Raila, the opposition and some former officials and less about Uhuru, a man Ruto does not want to appear to discredit personally and publicly in a manner that will set off a vicious cycle.
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