{"id":916670,"date":"2022-01-16T08:29:07","date_gmt":"2022-01-16T08:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/news\/2022\/01\/16\/focus-on-your-manifesto-matiangi-now-tells-ruto\/"},"modified":"2022-01-16T08:29:07","modified_gmt":"2022-01-16T08:29:07","slug":"focus-on-your-manifesto-matiangi-now-tells-ruto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/16\/focus-on-your-manifesto-matiangi-now-tells-ruto\/","title":{"rendered":"Focus on your manifesto, Matiang&#8217;i now tells Ruto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<figure>\n<div class=\"art-img row mx-md-0\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/evejgfedkdgdktob96561e3d1dda4f0d.jpg\" class=\"img-fluid w-100\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"bg-light mb-3 p-3 row mx-md-0\">\n<p><strong>Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang\u00ed is received by Nyamira County Security agents in Borabu, Nyamira County.<\/strong>[Sammy Omingo, Standard]\n<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"card-text\">Attacking me and Karanja Kibicho should not be part of\u00a0your\u00a0manifesto, Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang\u2019i has told Deputy President William Ruto and his allies.\n<\/p>\n<p>Addressing mourners during in Endiba in Borabu sub-County, Dr Matiang\u2019i castigated Ruto for continually attacking him and his Principal Secretary Kibicho over their roles in government. <\/p>\n<p>Matiang\u2019i told Ruto to concentrate on his\u00a0manifesto\u00a0instead of profiling his office and officers serving under him in a manner he said was worrying.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt should end at once. Every other time you are addressing a gathering, it\u2019s either me or Kibicho.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAre we\u00a0your\u00a0manifesto? You should tell people what\u00a0your\u00a0manifesto\u00a0is all about and not attack us,\u201d Matiang\u2019i said.\n<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"dHVIP7dgD1E\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"DP Ruto and CS Matiang&#039;i lock horns over the independence of the National police service\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dHVIP7dgD1E?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>The CS particularly hit out at the DP and his allies for what he said was a scary tendency of profiling civil servants, a matter he said was demoralising and killing the spirit of nationhood. <\/p>\n<p>He singled out a case of last Saturday when DP\u2019s followers attacked Uasin Gishu County Commissioner Stephen Kihara over what they termed unfaithfulness to the DP\u2019s political alignment.\n<\/p>\n<p>They claimed Kihara was a government agent out to frustrate the DP\u2019s quest to clinch power in the August polls.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are many politicians around the country whom you should be playing political games of attacking each other with, not government employees,\u201d he said.\n<\/p>\n<p>Matiang\u2019i was in Nyamira where he held a security meeting with chiefs and their assistants in what he said was preparation for the last round of voter registration exercise starting in February.\n<\/p>\n<p>More than 300 chiefs and their assistants attended the meeting that was held at Nsicha Technical Training Institute in Borabu. <\/p>\n<p>He said there were concerns that more than 60,000 national identification cards were yet to be collected by prospective applicants in Nyanza, a situation that he said would affect the August elections.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the IDS are not collected before the registration exercise is concluded, then we will be assured that the region has forfeited an equal number of votes, which would make a difference in choosing leaders in the August polls,\u201d Matiang\u2019i said.\n<\/p>\n<p>He ordered the chiefs to ensure the documents were distributed personally to the owners to ensure they were registered in time and that the owners participate in the polls.\n<\/p>\n<p>The CS was accompanied by Borabu MP Ben Momanyi, Nyamira Woman Rep Jerusha Momanyi, Nyamira Governor Amos Nyaribo and other key leaders from Nyamira County.\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"justify-content-start\">\n<button class=\"tags-btn mr-4 mb-3 load-more\"><br \/>\nFred Matiang&#8217;i<br \/>\n<\/button><br \/>\n<button class=\"tags-btn mr-4 mb-3 load-more\"><br \/>\nWilliam Ruto<br \/>\n<\/button>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.standardmedia.co.ke\/politics\/article\/2001434570\/focus-on-your-manifesto-matiang-i-now-tells-ruto\">Source: The Standard Media Kenya<\/a> <a \"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang\u00ed is received by Nyamira County Security agents in Borabu, Nyamira County.[Sammy Omingo, Standard] Attacking me and Karanja Kibicho should not be part of\u00a0your\u00a0manifesto, Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang\u2019i has told Deputy President William Ruto and his allies. Addressing mourners during in Endiba in Borabu sub-County, Dr Matiang\u2019i castigated Ruto for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-916670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=916670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=916670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=916670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=916670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}