Ruto-Museveni friendship comes under scrutiny by Kenyan MPs
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni (right) and Kenya Deputy President William Ruto (second left) during the laying of a foundation stone for the construction of DEI-Biopharma, the biological drugs and mRNA vaccine manufacturing facility at Matuga in Wakiso district. PHOTO | COURTESY | PPU
The friendship between Kenya’s Deputy President William Ruto’s and President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda came under scrutiny in parliament this week, with some Kenyan MPs raising concern about the two leaders’ association with Harun Aydin, a controversial Turkish national deported by the Kenyan government on August 9 over money laundering allegations.
The members of a parliamentary committee probing claims that Dr Ruto helped an unnamed investor to secure a Ksh15 billion ($10 million) loan from Kenya’s Equity Bank to set up a vaccine manufacturing plant in Uganda, suggested that Dr Ruto and President Museveni may have overlooked the Turk’s alleged dirty dealings and related with him as if he were a legitimate investor.
