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Deputy President William Ruto’s spokesman, David Mugonyi, threatened to influence the sacking of a journalist from Nation Media Group, Justus Wanga, on Sunday 7 January over a story published on the Sunday Nation.
The NMG reporter received a threatening call and a series of text messages after he wrote the article with the headline ‘Cabinet seats that split Uhuru, Ruto, claiming that his boss, DP Ruto and President Uhuru Kenyatta are having a fall out over the new Cabinet list.
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