DEPUTY PRESIDENT WILLIAM RUTO TOLD THE KALENJIN COMMUNITY TO EVICT KIKUYUS FROM RIFT VALLEY IN 2007 - ICC WITNESS REVEALS

The Hague, Netherlands: The tenth prosecution witness at the International Criminal Court (ICC) sensationally claimed Deputy President William Ruto publicly uttered statements that helped fan violence after the 2007 elections.

Witness 128 told the court that Ruto attended a rally at Kobujoi, in Rift Valley where he allegedly told members of the Kalenjin community to massively vote for ODM so that they can get chance to reclaim their ‘dispossessed’ land.

“I told you that Ruto asked the Kalenjins to vote in massive numbers and that once ODM takes power, it was going to uproot tree stumps,” the witness told the court “What did you understanding by the term uprooting tree stumps?” posed prosecution counsel Regina Weiss.

“At the beginning, I didn’t know what that meant but after the violence, we came to learn that he was talking about non-Kalenjins,” he added. “What were they talking about?” Weiss asked.

“What happened, there was violence and some people were forced to leave there homes and go elsewhere.” “When I was talking about some people, I meant non-Kalenjins …We knew that the Luhya came and bought land in the Rift Valley while the Kikuyu came to do business and they were the people who were targeted.”