Ruto: I Make Sh1.5 Million a Day Selling Eggs from My Chicken Farm

Deputy President William Ruto says he sells 150,000 eggs per day from his poultry farm in Eldoret, Uasin Gishu County. 

Speaking on Thursday, Ruto confirmed that he owns most of the properties listed by Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang'i when he appeared before the National Assembly Security Committee on Wednesday.

Ruto denied Matiangi’s claim that the 6,073-acre ADC Laikipia Mutara Ranch belongs to him and sarcastically stated that the Cabinet Secretary left out other assets he owns.

"They have done a lifestyle audit for me. But there are a few properties they listed that I do not own, like the 10,000 or so acres in Laikipia, that is not mine,” said Ruto.

He added: "What Matiang'i, however, failed to mention is that I own 400,000 Safaricom shares, who is guarding those? He talked about my chicken farm, he failed to mention the acreage. I also own another 80,000 shares in Kenya Airways.”

The deputy president went on to reveal that his chicken farm produces 150,000 eggs per day which sell for Sh1.5 million or Sh10 per egg.

He claimed that the revelations made by Matiang'i were ill-motived but they made his hustler nation narrative more practical.

"God can use people in mysterious ways. They spend two days without sleep, working for us. What the lifestyle audit shows is that anyone can come from nothing and become the deputy president. That a person who wore his first shoe in Form One after buying it from a Mr. Onyango can become the deputy president of Kenya," he noted.