William Ruto took a swipe at voters in Samburu county for always voting for Raila Odinga yet he doesn’t give them handouts. And now Winnies Odinga has jumped to her father’s defense.
Ruto on Tuesday December 14th hosted a delegation of Samburu leaders at his official residence in Karen where he drummed up support for his 2022 presidential bid.
The DP left the crowd in stitches as he wondered why his fiercest rival Raila gets a lot of votes in Samburu yet he doesn’t even contribute to churches or give offerings.
“Yule rafiki yetu haji harambee ya kanisa, hakuji ya shule hakuji ya kina mama ata sadaka munaskia sadaka pekeake ni problem. Na unajua kuna watu wako na bahati kwa sababu sasa huyo mtu ata sadaka hatoi lakini unakuta amepata kura elfu ishirini unashangaa na hii elfu ishirini ametoa wapi. Kwa kufanya kitu gani?” Ruto said.
The DP further claimed that Raila doesn’t have an impressive track record in as far as infrastructural development is concerned.
He claimed that he has done more for Samburu county under Jubilee government than Raila did when he was Prime Minister.
“Some people that we are competing against don’t have the agenda to sell to Kenyans and don’t have a track record like constructing roads, building TTIs, connecting people to electricity and haven’t built the church, helped women or even given out church offerings,” Ruto told the delegation from Samburu county.
Raila’s lastborn daughter Winnie Odinga was quick to hit back at Ruto after he castigated her father over church offerings.
Winnie told off Ruto insisting that her father doesn’t make public his church offerings because doesn’t seek cheap publicity like him.
“Not all donations are PR stunts. Give with your heart or not at all . The world doesn’t have to know,” Winnie Odinga tweeted.
Not all donations are PR stunts. Give with your heart or not at all . The world doesn’t have to know
— WinnieOdinga (@Winnie_Odinga) December 15, 2021
