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PRESIDENT UHURU WAS BLACKMAILED a day to his state of the nation address making him discard his original tough and action-oriented speech and write another speech few hours before he proceeded to the Parliament Buildings.
Some details of his initial speech were leaked to DP Ruto on 3rd April by unknown StateHouse operative.This made Ruto furious and that night he assembled all his elected leaders loyal to him at his Karen Home.
The initial speech was tough .In it,some CSs were fired,tangatang movement reprimanded,Raila praised and Ruto dresssed down indirectly.
Ruto camp had made a conscious decision to boycott the event out of fear that the President would use the address to quarrel his deputy and off load the Cabinet secretaries suspected to be corrupt, a majority who it is believed belong to their side.
However, at a meeting on the eve of the event held at the office of a top Jubilee politician(DP Ruto), the decision to boycott was rescinded and all agreed to attend, out of a fear that keeping away from the event could backfire.
But there was a caveat on this attendance. They had agreed unanimously to call the President’s bluff and walk out on him if he used the opportunity to sack the CSs.
They also agreed to jeer in the event the President resorted to use the address to attack, disparage or even demean Mr Ruto, or make comments that appeared to praise the ODM leader Raila Odinga.
Inside the chamber, most of the MPs allied to the DP had carried pieces of paper which they used to scribble notes and pass to each other over the duration of the address.
Whatever was scribbled on these pieces of paper is not clear.
Whatever was scribbled on these pieces of paper is not clear.
Throughout the speech,Ruto way forlon,disinterested and not concentrating as the president made his speech.
