Ruto: Time is up

The Standard uncharacteristically tore into William Ruto and asked him to resign due to his actions in the current raging scandals in his Ministry around Maize.

http://www.eastandard.net/InsidePage.php?id=1144005896&cid=4&ttl=Agriculture%20minister%20should%20step%20aside

That Ruto sees it perfectly fine to write notes to NCPB officials to sell Maize to his buddies at a time when the National Stategic reserve was more than 2,000,000 bags below the absolute minimum of 4,000,000 is either the height of arrogance or extreme naivety.

One of those who were lucky enough to get these notes is one Maize Large scale farmer, Jackson Kibor. While it should be the other way round, that is Kibor selling to NCPB, when Ruto instructs NCPB to sell Kibor 150,000 bags, this reeks of rampant corruption especialy with a looming threat of famine. It literally amounted to stealing food from the mouths of dying folk. Bought at a subsidized Ksh 1750 from the NCPB, a total of about Ksh 262 Million and if sold to Southern Sudan where a bag is selling at Ks 6,000, this deal had capacity to return a whooping 900 Million.



As I am writing this in the background I am listening to

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/meta/dps/2008/01/nb/080130_kenyaviolence_au_nb.asx

After having read

http://kenyangenocide.blogspot.com/2008/02/kibor-we-will-divide-kenya.html

No wonder Kibor and his ilk were ready to kill for Ruto to acquire political power to help them raid national coffers.

I am remembering Ruto, while in opposition, chanting from rooftops on the need of any corruption suspect to step aside for investigations to be carried out and now trying to justify his acts as legal since all the maize allocated was paid for is an utter display of hypocrisy.

While I do not expect the coward in state house to force Ruto to resign while the other clown, Ruto's party leader might not have the balls to force Ruto out especially with the expected political fall out, or, possibility of complicity, I know soon, Kibor, Ruto and their likes might be making a not too pleasant trip to Hague for an an appointment with Ocampo Moreno, that no nonsense prosecutor at ICC. But that is story for another day