Defence CS Eugene Wamalwa Fires Back at Ruto For Equating Him to a Woman

Defense Cabinet Secretary Eugene Wamlawa has fired back at Deputy President William Ruto after he suggested that he is a woman.

Speaking at a function shortly after the DP castigated him for claiming that he almost slapped him, Eugene labeled Ruto's remarks as unpresidential.

"Today William Ruto you have stood the lowest in your political life. What you said today, the insults against Eugene Wamalwa were very unpresidential," he said.

While addressing a rally in Trans Nzoia on Tuesday, July 12, Ruto while responding to claims of almost slapping the CS said " Kweetu hatuchapi kofi wanawake (In our community we don't slap women)".

CS Wamalwa went on to say that he has never abused the DP considering what he has been saying is what indeed happened.

He went on to say he respects the Deputy President and his office adding that the DP indeed wanted to sack him in 2018.

He dismissed claims that it is the DP who employed him as CS saying  President Uhuru Kenyatta is the single appointing authority and that he had no role.

"Na hii Nataka nikuombe kwa heshima sana, nakuheshimu, sijawahi kukutusi. Mimi nikisema ukweli labda kuna yale yamefanyika kwa cabinet, sababu ya kiapo tulicho nacho we don't say everything. Lakini nikisema William Ruto ulitaka kunifuta kazi 2018 it is the truth. It is the truth ya kwamba ulikua na hasira hata ukataka kunichapa kofi. It is the truth and not an insult. Ya kwamba ulitaka kuchapa Matiang'i kofi it is the truth," he added.

"We have witnessed that because It is about your character. Na huanzi leo, anger management is an issue that you have. Sababu ata wakati wa Moi ulichapa marehemu William Chesire, my brother-in-law, it is on your record. So tukisema yale ambayo umefanya sababu ya hasira or failure to manage your anger, Eugene Wamalwa is not insulting you."

The CS on Friday revealed that the DP almost slapped him after he organized a meeting of a delegation from Western Kenya with President Uhuru.

He said the DP was angered with him since he wanted to meet the group to seemingly bolster his 2022 bids.

It is then that Wamalwa said he would not hesitate to reciprocate the slap in the event the DP dared.