How foreign powers helped Ruto win the 2022 presidential election; Kuria
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CS Kuria reveals that foreign powers; the US, UK, and EU helped to protect William Ruto votes in the 2022 presidential elections
CS Kuria reveals that foreign powers; the US, UK, and EU helped to protect William Ruto votes in the 2022 presidential elections.
Speaking during an interview with a local radio station on Tuesday, Public Service Cabinet Secretary Moses Kuria alleged that Western envoys from the United States, the United Kingdom, and the European Union played an instrumental role in ensuring that President Ruto ascended to the top seat, especially during the vote tallying period when the whole country was tense.
Just hours before the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) made its official pronouncement, CS Kuria accused a number of influential members of the former government—of which he did not name—of conspiring to thwart Ruto’s victory.
Being a vital component of Ruto’s campaign team at the time, Kuria alleged, he phoned the three envoys and requested them to present themselves at the Bomas of Kenya.
“So I told Duale and Ndindi Nyoro, these people are going to put us on task. So I quickly made a phone call to ambassadors from the Western countries, since I was the one coordinating them,” Kuria remarked.
“I called US, UK, and EU ambassadors, convinced them to come to Bomas so that they could witness the unfoldings by themselves, so that if by any case anything occurs or even deaths, they would have been there to witness, that one big thing that saved us,” Kuria noted.
According to CS Kuria, the presence of foreign powers at the national tallying centre helped to ensure that the tense situation did not escalate into chaos and that the integrity of the election was maintained.
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Kuria alleged a section of senior government officials from the past regime planned to harm senior UDA campaign team members by instigating wrangles at the Bomas of Kenya.
According to Kuria, the irate atmosphere at the Bomas of Kenya that preceded the announcement of the presidential election results made him panic in fear.
“I was not sure if we could have come out of the Bomas of Kenya alive, there was a looming danger, and we were very few, you know the other side had the government and they were very many,” Kuria stated.
“They really angered us, and despite being sure that we had won, the looming danger at Bomas made me fearful.”
The CS recalled spending four days at Bomas of Kenya, and through the short period, he was forced to exercise a lot of patience and resilience.
He was also aware of the fact that anything could happen in that window.
“I knew we were going to win the election, the problem was that we were competing with very powerful people,” the CS said.
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