Newsmakers 2010 william ruto biography
William Samoei Ruto, 55, has been declared the winner of Kenya's presidential election.!
Uhuru Kenyatta and Mr. William Ruto, who were elected as.
William Ruto
President of Kenya since 2022
William Kipchirchir Samoei Arap RutoCGH (born 21 January 1967) is a Kenyan politician who is the fifth and current president of Kenya since 13 September 2022.
Prior to becoming president, he served as the first elected deputy president of Kenya from 2013 to 2022.[1][2][3][4] He previously served in three cabinetportfolios as the Minister for Home Affairs, the Minister of Agriculture and as Minister for Higher Education.
Ruto was elected Member of Parliament for Eldoret North constituency from 1997 to 2007 under the KANU, and from 2007 to 2013 through the ODM party. He was the Minister for Home Affairs in the Daniel arap Moi administration from August to December 2002.
Under the Mwai Kibaki administration, he was the Minister for Agriculture from 2008 to 2010 and Minister for Higher Education from April to October 2010. Ruto first contested for the presidency during the 2007 election, but los