William Ruto
William Kipchirchir Samoei Arap Ruto is a Kenyan politician who is the fifth and current president of Kenya since 13 September 2022. Prior to becoming president, he served as the first elected deputy president of Kenya from 2013 to 2022. Previously, holders of the position were referred to as Vice President and the officeholder was unelected and appointed by the President. He previously served in three cabinet portfolios as the Minister for Home Affairs, the Minister of Agriculture and as Minister for Higher Education.
Some of the key events about William Ruto
- 1992Graduated from the University of Nairobi with a Bachelor of Science in Botany and Zoology
- 1992Accused of selling land plots in the Ngong Forest, a protected area
- 1997Earned a Master's degree in Environmental Science from the University of Nairobi
- 2002Elected to the National Assembly as the Member of Parliament for Eldoret North
- 2004Charged with defrauding the Kenya Pipeline Company of millions of shillings
- 2005Appointed as the Assistant Minister in the Ministry of Home Affairs
- 2008Became the Minister of Agriculture
- 2010Appointed as the Minister of Higher Education
- 2010Ordered to surrender a 100-acre farm and pay compensation for illegally acquiring the land
- 2011Accused of hate speech for inflammatory remarks against certain ethnic communities
- 2013Elected as the first Deputy President of Kenya under the new constitution
- 2013Indicted by the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity during the 2007-2008 post-election violence
- 2015Implicated in a scandal involving the irregular allocation of land meant for a primary school
- 2018Enrolled for a PhD program in Plant Ecology at the University of Nairobi
- 2018Criticized for acquiring a hotel allegedly built on grabbed public land in Nairobi
- 2020Launched the "Hustler Nation" movement, advocating for bottom-up economic model
- 2020Accused of inciting violence through divisive political rhetoric
- 2021Linked to a controversial arms procurement deal that allegedly bypassed proper procedures
- 2022Elected as the 5th President of Kenya
- 2022Faced allegations of vote-buying and voter intimidation during the presidential election campaign
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