MP Maore accuses DP Ruto of hypocrisy: 'He wants credit for success, distances himself from failures'

Igembe North Member of Parliament Maoka Maore has castigated Deputy President William Ruto for what he terms as pretense in his criticism of the current administration, which he is still a part of.

Maoka argues that DP Ruto’s desire to be included in credits for the Jubilee administration’s successes in office while, at the same time, distancing himself from its failures is hypocritical.

“We have seen the hypocrisy in it; when things are good, (the DP says) ‘We did this together and we are taking credit’…when there is stress, (the DP says) ‘We will not allow this confusion that has been brought about by this structure’”, Maoka said on Citizen TV’s Day Break show on Tuesday.

According to the legislator, former opposition chief Raila Odinga is not to blame for promises made by the government that were unfulfilled, as the DP has been claiming in his recent campaigns.

“When you talk about the opposition leader having failed, I don’t know which exam you have set for him when he did not get the mandate to run the government. The people who got the mandate are the President and his deputy,” argued Maoka.

The deputy president has severally been quoted as saying that the March 2018 handshake between President Uhuru Kenyatta and Odinga is to blame for Jubilee’s failed promises, thereby positioning himself as an outsider in the very administration under which he was elected to serve.

“When you have members of the government who have decided that they are not in government, now they are in the opposition, that is where the confusion is,” added the National Assembly Deputy Majority Whip.

He further lashed out at DP Ruto’s allies who have been labeling Odinga as a State project in the August presidential race, claiming that - if anything - the DP is the one using State resources to run his campaigns.

“If you look at the residence in Karen, the vehicles he uses, the security...It is actually the Deputy President who is the State project, not Raila Odinga,” said Maoka.

The MP’s comments come just two days after DP Ruto reiterated that he will take full credit for the Jubilee government's success during its 10-year tenure.

"And I want to tell hawa watu wa Azimio wawache kutuingilia na mambo ya track record ya serikali yetu. We will claim every credit ya ile kazi imefanywa na hii serikali kwa sababu sisi ndio tulimchagua Uhuru Kenyatta awe rais wa Kenya na kura zetu," posed DP Ruto at a rally in Meru County on Sunday.

"Watu wa Azimio have no share in this government because they were nowhere when we were forming it," he added then.