Angry Bomet residents hold another round of street demos in solidarity with Governor Ruto

Bomet residents on Sunday took to the streets in large numbers in yet another round of protests aimed at showing solidarity with their Governor Isaac Ruto who was assaulted by police last week.
The residents wore band aids to symbolise the attack on Ruto who was seen wearing the same after the incident.
Ruto was airlifted to Nairobi before flying out to South Africa for further treatment after sustaining a deep cut below his right eye.
The residents demanded that Interior Security Cabinet Secretary Joseph Nkaissery apologise to Ruto over the incident.
 
Richard Sigei, a Bomet resident said.
The residents also called for those responsible for assaulting the governor to be charged and held responsible once investigations are completed.
Last week, the across major town centres in the county.
Ruto has maintained that administration police officers lobbed a teargas canister at him while dispersing a crowd after a confrontation between his supporters and the police at the Sibilwet Stadium in Bomet.
However County Commissioner Leparmarai said that the claims were false and that if a teargas had actually hit him, he would have sustained far worse injuries than what he had suffered from.
 
The residents at the same time said that they will not be forced to join a party which they did not want in an apparent reference to the Jubilee Party.
The Deputy President William Ruto, who is also Jubilee’s deputy party leader, has been in a struggle with Governor Ruto for political supremacy in the South Rift.
Governor Ruto quit the ruling Jubilee Party and formed his own Chama Cha Mashinani Party to rival the deputy president.