Ruto rallies youth to sign up as voters

Deputy President William Ruto on Friday asked South Rift residents to register in large numbers as voters to enable Jubilee win August polls.

The DP landed in Gorgor Secondary School, Sotik constituency, where he commissioned electricity connection to a grass thatched house belonging to an elderly man.

He also presided over the official opening of the Sotik Technical Training Institute.

He used both occasions to ask residents to vote for Jubilee. 

The DP made stopovers at various trading centres, including Gorgor, Ndanai, Kapkelei, Tembwo, Sotik and Kaplon where he reiterated that residents must register as voters.

He was accompanied by National Assembly Speaker Joyce Laboso, Energy Cabinet Secretary Charles Keter, Senators Wilfred Lesan and Aron Cheruiyot, MPs Paul Bii, Sammy Koech, Bernard Bett, Cecilia Ngetich and Ronald Tonui.

Mr Ruto added that the government would build five technical training institutes, one each in the five sub counties of Bomet at a total cost of Sh500 million, with each costing Sh100 million.

The DP said the President would commission medical equipment at Ndanai Health Centre in Chepalungu worth Sh380 million.

Mr Ruto also took a swipe at Bomet Governor Isaac Ruto, noting he was a stumbling block to the construction of a constituent college of Moi University in Bomet town.

“It is unrealistic for an individual to frustrate the government efforts of bringing the education to its youths by going to court to block development projects,” he said.

He noted the university will be built whether the governor “he likes it or not”.