On March 7 2022, then Deputy President William Ruto accused his boss President Uhuru Kenyatta of running "a mongrel of a government system".
Dr Ruto at the time claimed that the President had become a refugee in the Opposition due to his handshake with then National Super Alliance (Nasa) leader Raila Odinga.
When he spoke at the Chatham House in the UK in 2022, Ruto associated the Uhuru-Raila handshake with the collapse of flagship projects, claiming that the Jubilee Party's manifesto had been kept aside and that Uhuru Kenyatta was a "squatter" in the opposition. "Today in Kenya, we have a mongrel of a government system.
You don't know whether it is the government that is in opposition or the opposition is the one that is in government," said Ruto during his opening remarks at the Royal Institute of International Affairs. "Today the leader of the opposition is a project of the system and the deep state of government.
