{"id":920053,"date":"2022-01-27T14:36:49","date_gmt":"2022-01-27T14:36:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/news\/2022\/01\/27\/ruto-musalia-wetangula-a-blessing-to-my-state-house-bid\/"},"modified":"2022-01-27T14:36:49","modified_gmt":"2022-01-27T14:36:49","slug":"ruto-musalia-wetangula-a-blessing-to-my-state-house-bid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/27\/ruto-musalia-wetangula-a-blessing-to-my-state-house-bid\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruto: Musalia, Wetangula a blessing to my State House bid"},"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\/mfcfsxm4gvm41rwty61f2a7a4b398e.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>Deputy President William Ruto campaigned in Kikuyu constituent on January 27, 2022. <\/strong>[Stafford Ondego, Standard]\n<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"card-text\">Deputy President William Ruto has said the presidential race has been made easier by entry of ANC leader Musalia Mudavadi and Ford Kenya&#8217;s Moses Wetang&#8217;ula into the hustler nation fold.\n<\/p>\n<p>Ruto noted that in 2017 elections, him and President Uhuru Kenyatta won without the support of the key Western leaders who have now backed his quest for the presidency. <\/p>\n<p>He said with Mudavadi and Wetang&#8217;ula in his camp, it will be an early win for him on August 9.\n<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"3eCvgixO0EU\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"DP Ruto in Kiambu to sell his Bottom-up economic approach\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3eCvgixO0EU?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>\u201cWe made it to State House in 2017 without the support of Mudavadi and Wetang&#8217;ula, today the two leaders have decided to join the hustler nation. This erases any doubt that we will be in State House early enough in August,\u201d Ruto said.\n<\/p>\n<p>This comes barely a day after Ruto and the ANC and Ford Kenya leaders held a joint political rally in Nakuru.\n<\/p>\n<p>Addressing a rally in Kinoo, Kiambu County, yesterday, the DP reiterated that the presidency is not won in air-conditioned hotel rooms but by meeting the people. <\/p>\n<p>In a thinly veiled attack on ODM leader Raila Odinga, Ruto said: \u201cPolitical seats are not won in hotels, they are not won in boardrooms, they are won by meeting the voters and selling ideologies, policies and manifestos.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>He claimed the government&#8217;s Big Four Agenda was derailed by political interference for the ODM leader.\n<\/p>\n<p>He promised to carry on with the Big Four Agenda and prioritise small and medium entrepreneurs.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy government will put aside Sh100 billion to create employment especially in agribusiness, manufacturing, value addition and in small and medium businesses,\u201d he said.\n<\/p>\n<p>He regretted that Kenyans have been left at the mercy of shylocks and online money lenders because of the economic hardships. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe shall address this problem once and for all. Nearly everyone here has either a soft loan or a loan from a shylock he or she is servicing. We shall empower the affected population,\u201d Ruto said.\n<\/p>\n<p>The DP promised affordable health insurance through NHIF by reducing the payable rates and ensuring the rates are tailored to suit the different economic status of citizens.\n<\/p>\n<p>He also pledged to work closely with Kikuyu MP Kimani Ichungwa to provide a bus for Mama Ngina Primary School and HGM Kinoo Primary School.\n<\/p>\n<p>He was speaking after opening academic blocks at the schools. MPs John Kiarie, Rigathi Gachagua, Ichungwa, Jayne Kihara, George Koimburi and Charles Njagua accompanied him.\n<\/p>\n<p>Others were Kiambu Woman Rep aspirants Loise Kim, Ann Wamuratha, Githua Wamacukuru and incumbent Gathoni wa Muchomba.\n<\/p>\n<p>Former Kiambu Governor Ferdinard Waititu and Senate aspirant Karungo Thangwa were also present.\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.standardmedia.co.ke\/politics\/article\/2001435722\/ruto-musalia-wetangula-a-blessing-to-my-state-house-bid\">Source: The Standard Media Kenya<\/a> <a \"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deputy President William Ruto campaigned in Kikuyu constituent on January 27, 2022. [Stafford Ondego, Standard] Deputy President William Ruto has said the presidential race has been made easier by entry of ANC leader Musalia Mudavadi and Ford Kenya&#8217;s Moses Wetang&#8217;ula into the hustler nation fold. Ruto noted that in 2017 elections, him and President Uhuru [&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-920053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920053","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=920053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=920053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=920053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=920053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}