Defence Cabinet Secretary Aden Duale has spilt beans on why he fell out with Azimio la Umoja One Kenya Coalition party leader Raila Odinga.
Speaking on Wednesday, Duale alleged that Raila had a hand in dismissing him as an Assistant Livestock Minister together with Ruto, who was the then Minister for Agriculture.
He said that at the time they were getting sacked, Ruto and himself started drifting apart from ODM party.
“It is Raila who fired Ruto…William Ruto and I were fired on the same day. It was around three o’clock. I was in my office and the screens showed the following have been sacked as ministers,” Duale said.
The CS and President Ruto met while they were members of the ODM under Raila's leadership.
On August 24, 2011, Raila who was then Kenya’s prime minister axed rebel party members from his cabinet.
They included the then East African Community Minister Hellen Sambili, Assistant Livestock Minister Aden Duale, and Ruto who was the Minister for Agriculture.
On July 13, 2021, during an interview with Radio Jambo, Ruto who was the then Deputy President revealed that Sugar cartels had a hand in his shift from the Agriculture ministry under the Grand Coalition Government.
Ruto explained that he had been a target of many who have seen him as a political threat from way before he even became the Deputy President.
"My contribution to the Agriculture ministry is on record but the Sugar cartels made sure I was sent away," he said.
Ruto said the same cartels are the ones who have taken over the Jubilee Party.
In 2010, President Kibaki in a mini-reshuffle moved Ruto who was then Eldoret North MP from the Agriculture docket to the Ministry of Higher Education Science and Technology.
Ruto had been appointed to the Cabinet courtesy of ODM leader Raila Odinga following the disputed 2007 presidential results that led to the formation of the Grand Coalition Government.
