The Former Senior Presidential Press Secretary Joseph Tamale Mirundi has revealed that other than the William Ruto fight, there’s a hidden secret as to why President Museveni and his Kenyan counterpart Uhuru Kenyatta are feuding.
During an interview, Mirundi said that the Kenyan side is fearing that if Ruto works with Museveni and wins the next Presidential elections, Museveni will have higher chances of being the first President of the East Africa Federation (in case it materializes), something which Kenyatta doesn’t like.
The East African Federation is a proposed political union of the six sovereign states of the East African Community – Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda – as a single federated sovereign state.
“Because Ruto is popular and Raila Odinga has stood for five times, this gives Ruto a chance to win that is why Uhuru is accusing him of insubordination,” he said.
“To defeat Ruto in the coming election would be hard that is why Uhuru is blackmailing him before Kenyans by telling them that his DP is allying with Museveni who wants to rule over East Africa,” he added.
He added that Kenyans are fearing President Museveni to intervene in their politics because if Ruto wins it will give President Museveni a green card to be endorsed by Ruto as East African president.
Recently, the tribulations bedevilling Kenya’s Deputy President deepened when he was dramatically denied from boarding a flight to Uganda for not seeking clearance as all civil servants do.
The DP was scheduled to fly for an unknown mission to Uganda accompanied by a seven-man entourage comprising of his close political allies and businessmen.
According to a flight manifest from Phoenix Aviation, he was to use a private jet on flight number Jadestar 12.
The plane he was to use had already been prepared for flight but its crew was told at the last minute that their VVIP guest would not be flying after all.
The DP’s office protested what it termed a change of rules on his foreign travels without notice.
