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William Ruto banks on charter contracts to attract votes from select groups

Deputy President William Ruto during Youths Forum at Nyayo Stadium, Nairobi County. June 27, 2022. [DPPS]

Deputy President and UDA presidential candidate William Ruto is banking on his new strategy of signing charters with segmented interest groups to lock group votes as the race for State House gets tighter.

Hot on the heels of his earlier strategy of regional economic forums, Ruto’s charter approach, sources say, is calculated to “increase the surface area for netting hustler agenda support to its volume ratio”. 

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