Even as huge crowds cheered for William Ruto in his victorious campaign for Kenya’s presidency, his name was still quietly haunting the hallways of a more solemn place: the International Criminal Court in The Hague.president on Tuesday, is vowing to launch a crackdown on corruption within his first 100 days in office. But his own history of murky transactions, including bribery allegations that emerged at The Hague this year, has raised questions about his promises of reform.
Several witnesses testified that they were offered bribes if they declined to give evidence against Mr. Ruto. One said he was told that the bribe money was provided by the “Big Man” – whom he understood to be Mr. Ruto. Others made similar statements. Mr. Ruto became one of Kenya’s richest men during his long political career, including his nine years as deputy president, and the sources of his wealth are still unclear. Last month, the Kenyan government published a partial list of Mr. Ruto’s assets: cattle and poultry farms, a natural gas company, a helicopter company, several private residences, thousands of hectares of land, and two luxury hotels in Nairobi and Mombasa – all guarded by government-paid security officers.
In reality, however, Mr. Ruto is himself a long-standing member of the Kenyan political elite, accustomed to power and ruthless tactics. He began his career in the early 1990s as an ally of Daniel arap Moi, the long-ruling president who was notorious for jailing dissidents.
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