By Our Correspondent
A senior national official of the United Republican Party [URP} is recuperating in an Eldoret medical Hospital after he was reportedly attacked and stabbed by unknown assailants in Kisumu City.
George Ayugi who is an Assistant National Organizing Secretary of the URP who is also commonly known to is peers as “Mbuta”, according to the report lost right eye sight and several teeth in the brutal attack which is aid to have occurred last Saturday.
He was at first admitted to the Aga Khan hospital in Kisumu before being transferred to Moi Teaching and Pre-referal Hospital in Eldoret town.
Ayugi is a close political associate of the Eldoret North MP William Samoei Ruto. He has been an instrumental tool on which the latter had used and succeeded I making major inroad into Kisumu and are which is perceived to be the stronghold of the ODM.
Ayugi was among the plane load of passengers who travelled to the Hague during the first hearing of the ICC cases against four top Kenyan politicians who are facing serious criminal charges of violation of human rights, before the ICC which are related to the 2007 post election violence in Kenya. He and a few other activists were arrested by Norwegian police when they made a frantic attempt to address pubic rally outside the ICC Court at the Hague.
The six top Kenyan leaders were former Head of Public Service Ambassador Francis Muathaura, Industrialization Minster Henry Kosgei Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Muigai Kenyata, William Ruto and former Comissioner of Police Major Hussein Ali. The charges against Hussein Ali and Kosgey have since been withdrawn as the two were cleared as having committed no offence during pre-cameral trial leaving ony four who included the radio journalist Joshua Sang.
Ayugi closeness to Ruto is believed to have started while the latter was serving in the coalition government as the Minister for Agriculture. He is a member of the Sugar Arbitration Tribunal, a parastatal body which fall under the docket of the Agricultural Ministry and his appointment is believed to have been influenced by the then Agricultural Minister William Ruto.
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