About William Ruto
President William Ruto has been engaged in a series of domestic and international engagements. In Kenya, he hosted leaders from Marsabit County at State House, where he discussed development projects including the construction of a new airport and road infrastructure, and emphasized his administration's focus on education and healthcare funding. He also received the Gor Mahia football club after they won the Premier League, congratulating them and announcing plans to complete 28 new stadiums across the country. At a National Prayer Breakfast, Ruto stated that he would accept the outcome of the 2027 election and dismissed claims of a plot to rig the polls, saying the elections would be "free and fair" and conducted without violence. He also assented to three bills, including the National Disaster Risk Management Bill.
Internationally, Ruto traveled to South Africa for bilateral talks with President Cyril Ramaphosa, where they discussed trade, migration, and cooperation in pharmaceutical manufacturing. He also addressed Kenyans in Finland, stating that he had engaged with European partners on an economic partnership agreement and that Kenya was in the process of establishing a sovereign wealth fund. In various public addresses, Ruto has highlighted what he described as economic improvements under his administration, including a reduction in inflation, a stronger foreign exchange reserve, and increased funding for education and healthcare. He has also criticized the opposition, stating that they "have no new ideas" and lack a development agenda.
Source: AI-verified profile updated from William Ruto's recent appearances.
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President William Ruto today is attending a church service at Narusha's Seventh Day Adventist Church in Kisarian, Kajedu County. Let's listen in forward.
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William Ruto0:13
In this month of May, we had 33 presidents here and we planned how our continent Africa will move forward, reduce poverty, increase wealth, and the resources we have in this continent should be used to help the people of this continent. Africa should stop being a continent of disasters, of war, of poverty, and of diseases. We have a different paradigm shift in our continent. Tomorrow, I will also go to represent the continent of Africa: 54 presidents, 54 countries, at the G7 meeting. We are planning how this continent of Africa can send a message from our continent, Kenya leading, on how we will use the resources of this continent, use the capacity we have, the resources we have, using the land we have, and the population we have, to contribute to ensuring our continent Africa changes, and also we have a relationship with others, not a relationship that benefits them only, but a relationship that benefits us all. So I am very proud that we have made progress. God has blessed us, the grace of God for our country Kenya. We have made progress and we will continue moving forward. That is why I am telling you as Christians: thank you very much for your fellowship, for your support, and for your prayers for our nation Kenya. Where we were in 2022, God has granted us; we are in place in 2026. The challenges we had, God has blessed us; we have solved them and we are moving forward as a nation. Just the other day, our budget was read by our Minister of Finance, and we clearly explained the steps we have taken. I told you, for example, that we will change our agricultural sector in this recent budget. We increased the funds going to agriculture to reach 63 billion shillings. We increased the funds for subsidy of seeds, subsidy of fertilizer, matters of coffee seedlings, sugarcane seedlings, maize seeds. The fertilizer that was being sold at that price, we have regulated it. Now it is at a fair price and we have seen a big difference. In 2022, maize flour was 250 shillings for two kilos; today it is 120 or 140.
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Narrator4:12
That is President William Ruto live from there.
