President William Ruto alluded he and his administration offered Kalonzo Musyoka the speaker position in a bid to woo him to join the Kenya Kwanza government.
Speaking during an interdenominational prayer service at the Kenyatta Stadium in Machakos, Ruto thanked the Kamba region for voting him in.
Ruto hinted that he and his administration had offered Kalonzo Musyoka CS slots for his Kamba region, and after he rejected it, Alfred Mutua was offered the Cabinet Secretary for Foreign Affairs position.
“I promised that if I won, I would look for Kalonzo because he had been troubled by the others. I don’t want to be a liar, I want to say the truth, when I won the elections, I looked for Kalonzo and sat down with him.
“I told him to come and join my administration. There was a vacancy in the Speaker’s position and others because I did not want you to blame me later,” he stated.
However, Ruto noted that Kalonzo turned down his offer and chose to remain a member of the Azimio coalition.
Ruto added that he gave the positions to others in order to respect the decision made by the Wiper leader.
“I have discharged my responsibility because I spoke to him and he told me that he wanted to continue with the other team, what was I supposed to do?” he added.
The Head of State stated that Kalonzo’s decision did not deter him from including members of the Akamba community in his government, and that he made certain that all communities were represented.
Ruto stated that he would select more Akamba community members for his government and ask them to distance themselves from the Azimio mass protest.
“Even if he refused to work with me, I vowed to look for other leaders from ‘Ukambani’ to work with me to ensure that the people here were included in my government,” Ruto stated.
“I will even include more members from ‘Ukambani’ to my government because I cannot allow others to destroy this community with demonstrations that will not be of help to anyone,” added Ruto.
