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William Samoei Arap Ruto is a Kenyan politician serving as the Deputy President of Kenya since 2013. Ruto is the UDA presidential candidate in the 2022 presidential election. In the 2013 presidential election, Ruto was elected the Deputy President alongside President Uhuru Kenyatta under the Jubilee Alliance ticket.

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William Ruto Early life and education

William Ruto was born on 21 December 1966 in Sambut village, Kamagut, Uasin Gishu County to Daniel Cheruiyot and Sarah Cheruiyot. He attended Kerotet Primary School for his primary school education. He was enrolled in Wareng Secondary School for his Ordinary Levels education before proceeding to Kapsabet Boys High School in Nandi County for his Advanced Levels. He then went on to receive a BSc in Botany and Zoology from the University of Nairobi, graduating in 1990. Ruto later enrolled for a MSc in Plant ecology, graduating in 2011.

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The following year, he enrolled for a Ph.D. and after several setbacks, he completed and was awarded a Ph.D. from the University of Nairobi, graduating on 21 December 2018. Ruto authored several papers including a paper titled Plant Species Diversity and Composition of Two Wetlands in the Nairobi National Park, Kenya. During his time in the campus for the undergraduate course, Ruto was an active member of the Christian Union. He also served as the Chairman of the University of Nairobi’s choir.

It is through his church leadership activities at the University of Nairobi that Ruto met President Daniel Arap Moi who would introduce him to Kenya politics at later date, specifically during the 1992 general elections. Ruto owns a considerable chicken farm in his home village of Sugoi, which was originally inspired by his stint as a live chicken hawker on the Nairobi-Eldoret highway.

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William Ruto Career

• In 1992, he joined the party ‘Kenya African National Union’ (KANU), in their election campaign to support the party’s founder, Daniel Arap Moi.
• He was a candidate of the ‘Kenya African National Union’ (KANU) and entered the political sphere of Kenya, after he was appointed as a Member of Parliament for the Eldoret North constituency, in the year 1997.
• In 2002, he was elected as the Assistant Minister of Home Affairs, and in the same year, he was again elected to the Parliament.
• This leader became the Secretary General of ‘Kenya African National Union’ (KANU) party, in the year 2005.
• William announced in the year 2006, that he would contest the Presidential elections, which was to commence the next year. However, this decision of the leader was not supported by his ‘KANU’ comrades. So, he tried to file the candidature from the ‘Orange Democratic Movement’ (ODM), but failed to get a nomination.
• In 2007, William parted ways with the ‘Kenya African National Union’ (KANU) party and resigned from its secretarial post.
• In the presidential elections of 2007, there were differences in the decision as the election commission announced that the ‘National Rainbow Coalition’ candidate Mwai Kibaki as the president, while the exit polls showed another Kenyan politician and candidate for the presidential election, Raila Odinga, as the winner.
• However, Kibaki was elected as the President of Kenya and soon after, both Kibaki and Odinga came to a mutual understanding and decided to form a coalition cabinet.
• The coalition cabinet was finally formed in 2008 and William Ruto was elected as its Agricultural Minister.
• This political leader was shifted to the Higher Education Ministry from the Ministry of Agriculture in the year 2010.
• In 2011, the politician stepped down from his responsibilities as a minister, but he continued to be a Member of Parliament. The same year, this leader completed his Masters course in Environmental Science.
• The ‘Law Society of Kenya’ (KSK) blacklisted some individuals on charges of corruption in the year 2012, and asked the public not to vote for the ones cited in the list. Although Ruto’s name was in the list he managed to get a huge number of votes the next year, when he was a running mate to the current Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta.
• Ruto along with Kenyatta formed the coalition party named ‘Jubilee Alliance’, in order to contest the presidential election jointly.
• In the 2013 Presidential Elections, Uhuru Kenyatta was voted as the President and William Ruto was elected as the Deputy President of Kenya

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William Ruto Personal Life & Legacy

1. William Ruto and Rachel Chebet are married since 1991. They knew each other since their college days, way before tying the knot. The couple has been blessed with six children since then.
2. In 2009, he was allegedly blamed to have unlawfully sold maize, which belonged to the government. However, all these allegations were nullified by the deputy speaker of the Parliament.
3. It is said that William has huge number of shares in the insurance company ‘Amaco Insurance’.
4. He was accused of being involved in planning and plotting against president Kibaki, as a result of which violence broke out in the elections and the Criminal Court asked him to be summoned. The political leader also has many criminal charges against him.

 William Samoei Arap Ruto

Age: 55 Years, 55 Year Old Males

Family:

Spouse/Ex-: Rachel Chebet

Father: Mzee Daniel Cheruiyot

Mother: Mama Sarah Cheruiyot

Siblings: Paulo Martim Ruto

William Ruto CV

Whether you admire him or despise him, Deputy President William Ruto is a shrewd and self-made politician who rose to the top of the political establishment in a short amount of time to become the most formidable politician in the country at this time. Whether you love him or despise him, this fact remains true. William Ruto Biography

The self-proclaimed ‘hustler’ is famous for the sheer amount of hard effort he puts in and his combative temperament in politics, both of which helped President Uhuru Kenyatta win the General Election in 2013. He was able to mobilize the voting bloc in the Rift Valley behind him. William Ruto Biography

According to those who are familiar with him well, Ruto entered the world of politics when he started campaigning for Daniel arap Moi, the presidential candidate for the Kanu party. William Ruto Biography

The presidential election in 1992 took place at the most opportune time, and Ruto was a member of the team that established the Youth for Kanu ’92 organization. William Ruto Biography

The organisation was able to run an effective campaign in support of Mr. Moi’s re-election. The “Young Turks,” on the other hand, did not “eat big,” and as a result, they began to nurture their own political ambitions.

After another five years had passed, Ruto had grown his own wings, but they were only large enough to carry him to the parliamentary seat for Eldoret North. This was after he and a group of other young, lively people had become Kanu “rebels” and won their election against Moi’s handpicked candidate.

Many people were taken aback when he won the seat on a Kanu platform despite defeating more seasoned politicians like as Reuben Chesire, who has since passed away, and William Morogo arap Saina.

Move forward in time to the year 2002, and there was going to be another General Election. Ruto’s focus remained on maintaining his hold on the Eldoret North seat.

However, he was assigned by Moi to carry out “Project Uhuru,” which involved assisting a candidate for president in their bid for the office. Their efforts, however, were unsuccessful as a result of Mwai Kibaki’s victory in the election.

In the year 2006, a driven Ruto took an unexpected action. He made it clear that he will run for president of the United States. This was not well received by some in the Kanu camp, notably former President Moi, who swiftly denounced his choice.

Ruto, who was furious about the situation, defected to the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) party and tried to secure the party’s nomination for the president there. He ran against Raila Odinga and Musalia Mudavadi, but in the end, he finished in third place since Odinga was victorious.

Moi had witnessed the betrayal of his own man by his protégé, who would come back to punish him in the days and weeks to come as he established his own political clout. Ruto, who was an ally of Raila’s during the election in 2007, demonstrated his political power when he led the ODM wave that swept the Rift Valley and all the seats. This indicated that Ruto is a formidable political figure.

His new found fame was tarnished by the mayhem that ensued after the election, despite the fact that he had successfully delivered a vote for Raila.

Ruto, who at the time had established himself as a leading light in ODM and a member of the party’s cream that was referred to as the pentagon, was appointed Minister for Agriculture in 2008 until April 2010. This appointment was made during the formation of the grand coalition government in April of 2008. While working for the Ministry of Agriculture, he traveled across the country to conduct inspections on farms. He made certain that farmers had a steady supply of fertilizer and that there was a market for their produce at all times.

He was transferred to the Ministry of Higher Education Science and Technology, where he immediately began reforms to ensure that higher education institutions in the country provided a quality and relevant education to the thousands of young people in Kenya. He was ultimately successful in this endeavor.

William Ruto wins Kenyan presidential poll

Deputy President William Ruto has been declared the winner of Kenya’s presidential election amid dramatic scenes.

He narrowly beat his rival, Raila Odinga, taking 50.5% of the vote, according to the official results. The announcement was delayed amid scuffles and allegations of vote-rigging by Mr Odinga’s campaign. Four of the seven members of the electoral commission refused to endorse the result, saying it was “opaque”.

“We cannot take ownership of the result that is going to be announced because of the opaque nature of this last phase of the general election,” said Juliana Cherera, the vice-chairperson of Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC). “We are going to give a comprehensive statement… and again we urge Kenyans to keep calm,” she added.

In his speech, President-elect Ruto thanked the electoral commission for overseeing the election. “It is a wonderful evening… all sovereign power belongs to the people of Kenya,” Mr Ruto said, calling Mr Chebukati a “hero” and dismissing the other commissioners’ dissent of his win as “a side show”.

Mr Ruto said he wanted to be a president of all, and for the country to focus on the future. “To those who have done many things against us, I want to tell them there’s nothing to fear. There will be no vengeance. We do not have the luxury to look back,” he added. Celebrations have broken out in several parts of the country, including in Mr Ruto’s strongholds of the Rift Valley, and that of his deputy Rigathi Gachagua, in the Central region.

Supporters of Mr Odinga have staged protests in the western city of Kisumu and some parts of Nairobi. But generally there’s a sense of relief that the result has finally been declared because the country had ground into a halt since election day on 9 August, economic activities had stalled and schools remain closed. Kenya’s history of disputed elections in the past have led to violence or the whole process election being cancelled. Following the 2007 vote, at least 1,200 people were killed and 600,000 fled their homes following claims of a stolen election.