We’re here to serve all, says Ruto

PHOTO | JARED NYATAYA Deputy President William Ruto during a thanksgiving service at St Mary’s Osorongai Secondary School in Turbo, Uasin Gishu County on January 12, 2014.  NATION

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Mr Ruto said leaders should put aside their political differences and work together to serve all Kenyans.
During a funds drive in aid of 21 churches in the region after the service, Mr Ruto donated Sh1.6 million, which included Sh500,000 from President Kenyatta.

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The government will serve all Kenyans irrespective of their political affiliation, religion or ethnicity, Deputy President William Ruto has said.

Mr Ruto said leaders should put aside their political differences and work together to serve all Kenyans.

“We should rise above partisan politics and serve the people with all diligence,” he said yesterday at St Mary’s Secondary School in Kipkaren, Uasin Gishu County, where he joined other Christians in an open-air inter-denominational service.

“Sectarian politics have no room in the present Kenya,” he said.

The Deputy President dismissed politicians who have called for more appointments, noting that public jobs were not the preserve a few but were for 42 tribes.

Mr Ruto said leaders should stop empty rhetoric and serve all Kenyans without bias.

WORK WITH THE CHURCH

During a funds drive in aid of 21 churches in the region after the service, Mr Ruto donated Sh1.6 million, which included Sh500,000 from President Kenyatta.

The chief guest, Mr S.K. Macharia, the chairman of Royal Media Services, donated Sh10 million.

The Deputy President assured that the Jubilee administration would closely work with the church to improve living standards of Kenyans.

All security agencies in the country had been instructed to ensure security of all Kenyans irrespective of their social status, he added.

“All government apparatus will be mobilised to protect peoples’ lives and properties and full legal measurers will be taken against any individual compromising security issues or politicising it,” added Mr Ruto.

 The Deputy President added that security agencies were under instruction to use all available resources to ensure peace prevailed in the country.

He rallied support for the Nyumba Kumi system, which he said would enable neighbours understand and appreciate each other in tackling security issues.

He also announced that fertiliser was available in government stores and farmers would get it early enough for the planting season.

 The government had put elaborate economic measures to ensure achievement of double-digit economic growth, he said, adding that irrigation schemes spread across the country would help to ensure the country was food self-reliant.

Additional reporting by DPPS