Writes Leo Odera Omolo In Kisumu City

A Kenyan newspaper has made startling revelation to the effect that the country’s Minister for Higher Education William Kipchirchir Samoei Ruto,who last month led a spirited campaign against the new constitution when he led the No camp in the just concluded referendum voting has of late become the target of major Western Intelligence community.

In a well written report appearing in its column this week, the WEEKLYCITIZEN, which is credited for political, economic and security gossips says intelligence analysis’s in Kenya, the East African region and other parts of the world who follow local politics for instance South Africa, Nigeria, the USA, Russia and the European Union, China, Japan and India are said to be busy exchanging notes on the dynamics of local political visa-a-vise Kibaki succession.

The article which sounded like a public relations gimmicks sponsored by the Minister himself for the purpose of face saving after he suffered political humiliation in the referendum outcome, sounded like the work of someone who has perfected in fiction writings, but cannot be rubbished simply, Kenya being what it is as a country, which is full, of politics of deceits, manipulation and maneuvers of this kind.

It says all these countries mentioned above wants to have a clear picture on political, social and economic arenas.

“And the one world leader with the most comprehensive dossier on Kenya and its political leadership before and after the referendum is the US President Barack Obama, the report says, adding, “He dearly wishes to court a reform and rapidly democratizing Kenya the land of his father, as part of his own legacy at the White House.”

After all, it was Obama who applied the greater pressure on the quarrelling principals of the grand Coalition government to get them put the final pieces of the constitutional review in place, more pressure even that exerted by the former UN Secretary General Dr Kofi Annan, the donor and development partners combined.

Obama had applied so much pressure on Kenya that he politely refused the birth place of his father and forefathers his first stop in Africa as President of the Unite States choosing instead Ghana.

The WEEKLY CITIZEN attributed the information contained in the article to impeccable diplomatic and media circles, that one person Obama the America spymasters keeps tabs about on Kenyan political leadership is the high riding Higher Education Minister William Ruto.

The report adds that Ruto’s CIA dossier is updated now and then and is closely monitored more than of President Mwai Kibaki and the Prime Minister Raila Odinga. Ruto’s file is only one of the CIA files history on a Kenyan to be marked “Secret”. Pundits and observers alike were quick in expressing doubt about the accessibility of the CIA files by an outsiders, arguing that the CIA documents are the most inaccessible in the world.

“Only other Kenyan who have had CIA files rd-flagged in this and updated regularly is that of the late President Jomo Kenyatta his communist leaning deputy Jaramogi Oginga Odinga in the period of 1959 and 1961 and during the cold war between the UIS and its Western allies and the Russian and its Eastern European communist blocs.” And the late Tom Mboya, although he was pro-America was being monitored for fears known to the CIA That was during the Kenyatta regime.

It went on reporting hat in the Daniel Moi era, Nicholas Kipyator Kiprono Biwoot, the “Total Man” was placed on CIA list in the period between 1989 and 2002.

Jomo Kenyatta went on to become the first Prime Minister and President of Kenya and a strong ally of the British who told the Americans to leave him alone. Biwott too went on to become a valuable link and asset to Kenya-Israel relations with Jerusalem urging the American to tae him off listed category.

But Kenyatta, and Biwott enemies in America were not as powerful and influential as Ruto’s. First, it is said that Obama has no time for Ruto, although if he sincere with himself he must have been impressed b young Ruto’s one man army that threatened to upset the Kibaki-Raila-Kalonzo-Uhuru-Mudavadi apple cart in the referendum.

According to the CITIZEN, informed sources say Ruto top the list of those in the No camp who are banned from travelling to the US. Another cabinet member banned is the Attorney General Amos Wako.

It is imperative to note, Ruto and Wako files has many comments on the margins entered by the Ambassador John Corson, President Obama’s senior most envoy on African Affairs and a former US ambassador to Kenya.

In political circles, the CITIZEN wrote,” It is said that the current US ambassador to Kenya Michael Renneberger’s continued stay in Kenya had seen slowly leans toward the Prime Minister Raila Odinga. The envoy’s looming departure is seen as God sent in certain quarters.

Ambassador Renneberger’s survival tactics has befriended the Obama family in Kenya and to an extent those in America. t is rumored in high political circles to the effect that the envoy is using Obama’s step sister Dr Rita Auma Obama was instrumental in having Raila Odinga visit the US and even have photographs with Obama and his family during a high profile head of states meeting at the White House.

The recent dossier to give Ambassador Renneberger a clean bill of health by the Obama Administration after Ruto and those in the No camp had complained hat he was directly involved and interfering in the country’s local affairs. By being pro Yes signifies a lot.”

The CITIZEN widely quoted a retired former Kenya top intelligence operative from the Rift Valley Province who it claims keeps close ties with both Ruto with a section of CIA,which had trained him, the file on the Eldoret North MP reads as if it was filed by Ruto worst political enemies in Kenya. It contains most adverse information right down from financial and private life details.

It contains the Minister’s CV, political history, strong opinion and dislikes of his strength and weakness, his use of opportunities and threat quotient. The Ministers bank account and his association with powerful forces in the Moi regime has taken a number of pages, the Paper claimed.

Of great concern is the force, behind the Minister’s economic muscles that was able to sustain and fund a formidable No campaign by traversing the country at will. The US is reported to be so bitter with the former President Daniel Arap Moi launched the campaign within a campaign to discredit Ambassador Renneberger and other Western support for the Yes side against the No side.

Privately, the CITIZEN wrote,” Ruto seems to have no bad words for the Kenyan intelligence, yet nothing but bitterness for the special relations between Raila Odinga and the US Ambassador to Kenya and Corson.

The WEEKLY CITIZEN for its anti-Raila stance, which has seen the paper coming out with the banner headlines considered of being adverse to the politics of the Prime Minister for almost one year incessantly on weekly basis, and this particular article could be part of the well orchestrated campaign against “Agwambo”

The article says that Ruto is convinced that his file with the American is written in Nairobi by two or three people and then passed on to Corson and onward to President Obama.

It is suspected that with the support of American international force, every political system need a scapegoat and Ruto is increasingly worried that he together with the Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta be the sacrifice lamp.

The report went on,” In fact the worry among the two politician is with the adverse Western intelligence, and ICC prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo will make a brief for them and associates when it come to the first round prosecutions at the Hague for the post election violence. Sparing on delaying targeting some of the other players on the other side of political divide who until recently was profiled for arrest interrogation and prosecution.

“The question is, will America use the muscle power to clip Ruto and his allies by influencing the Hague?

Enda

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