Muturi: Ruto is irredeemably corrupt

By , April 4, 2025

In a scathing criticism of President William Ruto, former Public Service Cabinet Secretary Justin Muturi has said the Head of State is an irredeemably corrupt figure.

Muturi made the comment during a morning talk show with a local TV station, where he said Ruto cannot speak about graft because he is not clean.

“When I watch William Ruto sometimes talking to members of the cabinet and saying, ‘I do not want to see corruption in my government,’ then I start wondering, ‘Who is this talking?'”

“He is absolutely, irredeemably corrupt,” Muturi said.

The former Attorney General recounted an experience he had while in Dubai, where he was told by President Ruto to sign a deal that involved Russians.

However, he said he could append his signature on the documents as he would prefer to review them before signing.

“I do not want to give you obvious examples like the Adani deal because I have some background. When his advisor invited me to attend COP28 in Dubai in 2023, he gave me a lot of information, which ended up with the Adani deal about the airport. During the same time, some Russian oligarchs had offered to invest USD1 billion here in Kenya.

“On the day we were coming from India, after COP28, we flew to India for a state visit. At the time I landed in Dubai, Ruto was calling me, ‘Those people, those Russians, they are there in Dubai; you need to sign those documents.’ But I said I have just landed at the airport; I am in transit; I am not leaving the airport.

“He said, But you are there; your staff have already worked on the document, and I need to review it in the office. They (Russians) were purporting to give a grant of USD1 billion to allegedly grow three billion trees towards the 15 billion trees goal,” Muturi said.

Money-minting initiatives?

He added that Ruto’s programmes are always influenced by his desire to make money from them.

“You know, whenever William Ruto comes up with a programme, it is for money-making. They (Russians) brought me an MoU that came from the Ministry of Environment, which they pushed through, and I told them that now this USD1 billion can only be by way of grant, and it cannot come directly to the ministry because under the PFM Act (The Public Finance Management Act, 1999) in section 47, it can only go through the National Treasury.

“They tried to avoid that money going to the National Treasury, and it is the money coming from abroad. I was told to sign at the airport, and it is William Ruto calling me directly,” he concluded.

Muturi was fired as CS, and Geoffrey Ruku, the Member of Parliament for Mbeere North, was nominated in his place.

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