Deputy President William Ruto disembarks from a helicopter. He has accused Jubilee Party Vice-Chairman David Murathe of hatching a plot to frustrate his ambition of succeeding President Uhuru Kenyatta in 2022.
As a ‘Very Very Important Person’ in government protocol, the DP ought to have at his disposal military and police fixed-wing planes and helicopters.
Earlier in the year Mr Ruto was denied access to the Deputy President’s official residence in Mombasa, and in Mombasa last week had no access to government facilities.
When Deputy president William Ruto left Nairobi for Mombasa on August 28, two things stood out; one, he boarded a commercial Kenya Airways plane and, two, spent the night at a private hotel.
There were no military planes to take him to the coastal city and back to Nairobi as is the norm, and he was not accommodated at his official residence there.
