This year, Ruto led countless Kenyans in marking the legal holiday in Bungoma, a town in western Kenya around 300 kilometres from the nation’s capital, Nairobi (archived here).
However the video does disappoint Odinga participating in the 2024 Madaraka Day events and he does not deal with Ruto as Kenya’s president.
Controlled 2018 video
Utilizing a keyword search, AFP Truth Examine discovered the initial broadcast on the YouTube page of KTN News published on June 1, 2018 (archived here).
A side-by-side contrast of the 2 clips reveals Odinga and Ruto together at a podium and using the very same matches in both videos.
In the KTN News video shot at the 55th Madaraka Day event, Ruto — the deputy president at the time — welcomes Odinga to the podium. Odinga starts his speech by extending an official welcoming to Uhuru Kenyatta, who was the nation’s leader in 2018.
“President of the Republic of Kenya, Uhuru Kenyatta, First Girl Margret Kenyatta, my buddy and bro William Ruto and our buddy from South Africa, bro and pal David Mabuza,” stated Odinga, speaking Swahili.
The doctored clip’s audio was modified so that Odinga appears to describe Ruto as “president of the Republic of Kenya”.
According to regional media reports, Ruto embraced a more conciliatory technique towards his competing Odinga throughout the 2018 Madaraka Day events held at Kinoru Arena in Meru County (archived here).
Ruto described Odinga, a previous prime minister, as “his bro” and buddy, explaining him as a nationwide leader.
Odinga and Ruto would go on to be competitors in the 2022 election. Ruto won by a slim margin, resulting in another fallout (archived here) in between the 2 guys.
However Odinga’s newest goal to end up being the 5th chairperson of the African Union Commission (AUC) appears to have actually assisted thaw relations with Ruto (archived here).
Odinga’s spokesperson Dennis Onyango informed AFP Truth Examine that “Raila was missing from the Madaraka Day events considering that he was taking care of individual matters”.
