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How Ruto fought the reforms that gave him its biggest beneficiary

President William Ruto during the 3rd National Executive Retreat at KCB leadership centre on June 19, 2025. [Jonah Onyango,Standard]

During the campaigns to drum up support for the 2010 Constitution, William Ruto, then a Cabinet minister, rejected the draft.

While serving as Agriculture minister, Ruto teamed up with the church to launch a countywide campaign leading the No campaign, but two years later, the reforms he rejected made him the first occupant of the office of the Deputy President.

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