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Copyright AFP 2017-2021. All rights reserved. Facebook posts claiming to picture a Kenyan MP in hospital after being beaten up at a funeral in February 2021 have been shared multiple times. The claim is false: while the image does show lawmaker Simba Arati in hospital, the picture was taken in 2014 after he was injured during a chaotic parliamentary session. “Quick recovery Simba Arati! Next time don't joke around with the hustler nation movement!!!” reads the Facebook post published on February 01, 2021. “Hustler nation” is a slogan used by Kenya’s Deputy President William Ruto a...

Others are Stephen Nyakeriga (The New Democrats) and Daniel Ondabu of the Party of Economic Development (PED). Both PED and UDA parties are associated with Deputy President William Ruto. Nyandusi who is running on the UDA ticket has had his campaigns led by Kisii Deputy Governor Joash Maangi, South Mugirango Mp Sylvanus Osoro and Charles Nyacahe. On the other hand, PED’s candidate Ondabu has the support of former Kenya Ports Authority Managing Director Eng Daniel Manduku. Ondabu, Nyandusi and ODM’s Matara are leading in the campaigns. Matara says he has the backing of the youths in the co...

She recalled meeting the MP when she was a 23-year-old college student.

THE STANDARD POLITICS Deputy President William Ruto addresses Iten residents in Elgeyo Marakwet County yesterday. [Peter Ochieng, Standard] Deputy President William Ruto now claims there is a wider scheme to push him out of Jubilee government. Speaking in Kabarnet, Baringo County yesterday, Ruto said that the scheme was being hatched by some people in Jubilee to force him out. In what appears to be a response to recent remarks by President Uhuru Kenyatta that those in government but were dissatisfied should leave, Ruto said security and other state agencies were players in the scheme. “If ...

Silvanus Osoro: How street boy became a lawyer, millionaire MP Silvanus Osoro's parents died within a span of four months. If you had told Silvanus Osoro when he was a street boy in Nairobi that he would one day be an accountant, lawyer, businessman, politician and millionaire, he would have died with laughter. The South Mugirango MP was the fifth child in a family of three brothers and three sisters. Their father, Meshack Onyiego, was a secondary school teacher, while their mother Sarah Kemunto, was as a nurse at Kaplong Hospital in Bomet County. Theirs was a solid, well-to-do family by Keny...