Police Arrest Turkish Businessman Associated with Deputy President William Ruto

Police Arrest Turkish Businessman Associated with Deputy President William Ruto

A Turkish businessman associated with Deputy President William Ruto was on Saturday arrested by security officers in Nairobi.

Harun Aydin, who was in Ruto’s aborted trip to Uganda, was arrested at Wilson Airport in Nairobi upon arriving in the country and was taken to Kilimani police station before being transferred to the anti-terror offices on Ngong Road where he was locked.

“Together with the lawyers at the Anti-Terror Nairobi Offices on Ngong Road where Harun Aydin is locked, we have been denied access,” MP Oscar Sudi said.

The foreigner was set to accompany Ruto to Uganda for a private visit alongside Kiharu MP Ndindi Nyoro, his Kapseret counterpart Oscar Sudi and businessmen David Lagat, David Muge, Simon Mogun, and Nelson Kisalit.

The seven flew to the neighboring country on Monday but the deputy president was blocked from boarding a private jet at Wilson Airport where he was stranded for five hours. He was forced to cancel the trip after immigration officials insisted he must have a travel clearance from President Kenyatta as required of all State officials.

But in an interview on Wednesday, Ruto maintained he does not need any clearance to travel abroad on private trips. “I have been a Deputy President for 9 years and I have traveled to many places. I have never been asked to produce clearance,” said Ruto.

Ruto further defended the presence of Turkish businessman Aydin, who has been linked to terrorism activities, saying he is a well-known investor as confirmed by the Turkish embassy in Nairobi.

“The Turkish embassy itself has issued a statement saying he is a recognized businessman and has a work permit. There are those who want to destroy saying he is a terrorist,” he added.

The deputy president confirmed he helped Aydin obtain a Sh15 billion loan from Equity Bank to set up a vaccine plant in Uganda.

 

Comments

Isaac Newton Kinity (not verified)     Sat, 08/07/2021 @ 10:36am

Please give us a break. The DP has to elaborate this more. The unemployment in Kenya is very high. With establishment of businesses in Kenya, at least some reduction of unemployment would be witnessed. Why would the Kenya Deputy President ignore the youth in Kenya who he calls Hustlers, and instead helps someone to invest in Uganda so that the Uganda Hustlers can benefit. Does he assume that all is all well for the Kenya Hustlers with wheelbarrows?. Does he think that the Kenya Hustlers do not want employment and instead they only need wheelbarrows? Why then doesn't the Deputy President William Ruto go and run for President in Uganda instead of in Kenya, where he is favoring with investments and not wheelbarrows?

Asista (not verified)     Sat, 08/07/2021 @ 10:42pm

In reply to by Isaac Newton Kinity (not verified)

The big four agenda which was to come out in the second term of the two principals was divided and killed by handshake. The deputy president has been put in the cold since then. Things like bringing in a friend to do business in Kenya , it’s processing are among the ones that the handshake government would not let him. He’s being frustrated from all angles. He is barely survives but just for the name DP!
Medicine or any thing medical in Kenya is expensive and scarce. Ruto has told us the the same guy he helped was reciprocating by getting his supplies at half price. Any one politically sane as you will see that this is already a benefit to Kenya.
At the end of the day like you have previously said ‘ the bug stops at state house’.

Mutai (not verified)     Sun, 08/08/2021 @ 02:52pm

In reply to by Asista (not verified)

Ruto was never a principal! Stop dreaming @asista! There is only one principal at a time - that is currently Uhuru Kenyatta! You are very mannerless and that is why your guy Ruto is having monumental problems! Ruto does not understand his place in the pecking order!

Chepkemoi (not verified)     Sun, 08/08/2021 @ 11:38pm

In reply to by Asista (not verified)

Just because Ruto has said it, it doesnt make it true! Wake up! Ruto has been known to be the biggest lying and propaganda chief in kenyan history! The biggest thief than all the other thieves combined!! Use your head and sober mind to gauge the obvious. Anyone else to be president but not this ngithe, meno ka ngiri!!

Ciro (not verified)     Mon, 08/09/2021 @ 03:43am

In reply to by Asista (not verified)

The kalenjin community does not understand the importance of the handshake because they don’t like unity in Kenya. Ruto wants to have Kenyans divided to disenfranchise them by picking upon everyone as a member of a small tribe! A divide method he has used to divide Kenyans along ethnic lines!

Let’s plainly put it that Ruto has betrayed Kenyans and the country fir taking investment to Uganda while he is the DP of Kenya! Ruto should be ashamed to even talk about why he did.

Roberts (not verified)     Mon, 08/09/2021 @ 01:51pm

In reply to by Asista (not verified)

Can you tell us why Ruto killed your fellow kalenjin Kenei and Yebei? If you people can’t trust Ruto with the life of his won tribes men; how in hell do you expect us to trust Ruto!

Was Ruto not going to Church when he killed women and children in Kiambaa church in Eldoret!? Wacheni ujinga!

Isaac Newton Kinity (not verified)     Sat, 08/07/2021 @ 10:37am

Please give us a break. The DP has to elaborate this more. The unemployment in Kenya is very high. With establishment of businesses in Kenya, at least some reduction of unemployment would be witnessed. Why would the Kenya Deputy President ignore the youth in Kenya who he calls Hustlers, and instead helps someone to invest in Uganda so that the Uganda Hustlers can benefit. Does he assume that all is all well for the Kenya Hustlers with wheelbarrows?. Does he think that the Kenya Hustlers do not want employment and instead they only need wheelbarrows? Why then doesn't the Deputy President William Ruto go and run for President in Uganda instead of in Kenya, where he is favoring with investments and not wheelbarrows?

Imara Daima (not verified)     Sat, 08/07/2021 @ 11:39am

Ndugu na dada zetu WaEmbu wanaoishi karibu na mlima mrefu katika nchi yetu wana msemo maarufu sana ambao unasema, "Mucera na mukundu akundukaga take."

Tafsiri yake ni kuwa ukishirikiana na mtu mwenye tabia za ajabu, hata wewe mwenyewe utaiga (imitate) tabia zake mbovu.

Ningependa kujua, kwa nini wafuasi wa Ndugu yetu Kipchirchir Samoei Arap Moi wangali wakiandamana naye na huku wanajua tabia zake za ajabu kutoka 1992, 1997, 2007-08?

Kwa nini Samoei hajatuambia mpaka sasa wote waliohusika kuteketeza wazee, watoto, na akina mama katika kanisa la Kiambaa huko Eldoret?

Ndugu yetu wa kutoka Cape Town Mzee Tutu alinguruma na kusema:

"If you are silent in situations of injustice, you have taken the side of the oppressor."

Tusipompinga mwana wa Ruto halafu awe rais wa Kenya, tutayaona yaliyowapata binadamu duniani kote waliponyamaza na kumwacha Adolp Hitler kuchukua uongozi katika nchi ya Ujerumani.

Ni lazima Mkenya yeyote ambaye hajapokea hongo kutoka kwa Mwanawe Ruto apinge vikali huyu ndugu yetu kupewa nafasi yoyoite ya kugombea urais nchini.

Ni lazima kila mtu anayetaka kugombea kiti chochote cha uongozi akaguliwe na tabia zake zote za zamani ziwekwe hadharani ili tusipate viongozi walio na tabia za ajabu kama Ndugu Sonko au Arap Ruto.

Kwa nini WAFULA CHEBUKATI amewakubali watu ambao tabia zao hazikubaliki kutokana na Sura ya 6 ya katiba yetu mpya ya Kenya kugombea kiti chochote cha uongozi nchini?

Too (not verified)     Mon, 08/09/2021 @ 01:55pm

In reply to by Asista (not verified)

That was then when Uhuru was elected with the Ruto baggage! And yes we know Ruto was not a mother Teresa then but we wanted to put a leash on his neck to stop him from killing more kenyans. We accomplished that mission and now it is time for Ruto to go! Many will die if Ruto is allowed to the presidency - win or lose!!

Wali wa Daku (not verified)     Sat, 08/07/2021 @ 12:17pm

Investor? Why is Equity Bank giving a loan of Kshs. 15 billion to a foreigner, and not to Kenyan small business owners? He should be bringing in money from Turkey. Equity doesn't know him like that! Something fishy is going on with arap Mashamba.

Mansuu (not verified)     Sat, 08/07/2021 @ 03:47pm

In reply to by Wali wa Daku (not verified)

The loan went to DP Ruto’s pockets to pay the humongous debts he owes since Uhuru blocked him from stealing money allocated to national projects! Ruto had arranged to have a pion from Turkey to f so o the dirty deeds for him!

You can all see how Sudi and Murkomen are jumping around because they have been caught and the shit has started rolling down hill!

Kenyans must ask Ruto to take responsibility and come clean with the severer dealings!

Imara Daima (not verified)     Sat, 08/07/2021 @ 12:47pm

WaKenya wote wanaomtaka Ndugu Kipchirchir Samoei Arap Ruto awe rais 2022, nawaombeni mtazame vidiyo klipu hii fupi. Baada ya kuitazama, nawaombeni mjitazame kwenye nafsi zenu na kujiuliza kwa nini mpaka sasa mnataka awe rais wa Kenya! Mmesahau yaliyotokea Kenya baada ya uchaguzi wa 1992, 1997, 2007?

Aliyekuwa waziri mkuu wa Uingereza Marehemu Winston Churchill alisema, "Those who fail to learn from history are condemned to repeat it."
https://youtu.be/YSgiyF8faWY

Walid (not verified)     Sat, 08/07/2021 @ 01:05pm

Lock up the son of a bitch and finya hiyo makende! You know the deal! Weka hapo ndani until all the dirt information is out!

Ole Sanitini (not verified)     Sat, 08/07/2021 @ 01:13pm

Ruto is running a parallel arm of the government with the assistance of RNM ordered by Museveni!

While we want to maintain a good neighborly relationship with our neighbors; we should make sure they do not interfere with our security apparatus as well as cause harm to our citizens!

Ruto must be stopped by all means because he is selling our country! Who is Oscar Sudi by the way!? These fools are showing Kenyans the kind of government they will establish in case Ruto became the president!

Let us stop this madness now before we get ourselves in a jam after 2022! Democracy has its limits! We must all understand that concept!

Oduor (not verified)     Sat, 08/07/2021 @ 01:19pm

DP Ruto’s mentality is severely warped! He still thinks black Kenyans can not do things own their own unless a yellow skin is behind them! Why is ruto helping others set up companies in other countries while Kenya has over 1 million graduates looking for jobs?? Is this the concept behind Ruto’s matakonomics?? Ruto is lying to Kenya youth with his dirty smelly goat mouth wide open!

Kimanzi (not verified)     Sat, 08/07/2021 @ 01:56pm

Dp Ruto is equivalent to a prostitute who goes out for the highest bidder! He will sell any body to include the whole country as long as there is money offering purposely for himself!

Ruto is worse than those Kenyan women entering into fake marriages with the European white men only to kill them and keep all the stolen wealth!

Does Kenyans really want to have a prostitute president come 2022?? I surely do not think so, but I only got one vote and I know how I am going to vote!

Bmore (not verified)     Sat, 08/07/2021 @ 02:10pm

Hii Kenya inamambo! The DP helped this guy to get a loan from equity bank to invest in Uganda yet he want to be president

Mūgīkūyū (not verified)     Sat, 08/07/2021 @ 02:13pm

He is a "business man" but no one knows what he trades in. Obtaining a loan of 15B in Uganda shillings is Ksh 400 Million. This could very well be Arap Mashamba using this guy and Equity Bank to sanitize his loot hidden in Uganda, perhaps in M7 many bedrooms. Kenyan gova should investigate Equity Bank and keep a close eye on M7.

Imara Daima (not verified)     Sat, 08/07/2021 @ 03:31pm

@ Kimanzi:

Yesterday (August 06, 2021), Ndugu Kalonzo Musyoka pointed out that, during the last election over one hundred contestants were cleared to run for an elective public office yet they did not meet Chapter 6 minimum standards of our New Constitution.

All Kenyans must demand that come 2022, all contestants must forward their names in advance and wait to be cleared to run for an elective public office after a thorough character review. We should empower the DCI (Directorate of Criminal Investigation) and the EACC (The Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission) to save our nation by clearing people who will be public servants but not opportunists who want to own the meagre wealth of our nation while ignoring the millions of poor and destitute people of our Kenya.

We, the people must demand that, DCI and the EACC stop candidates who have a questionable past and make sure that, they are not presented to the public for a vote. Unless we change the way we allow any "Tom, Dick, and Harry" run for office, Kenya will eventually slide into oblivion.

Mutai (not verified)     Sat, 08/07/2021 @ 03:55pm

Uhuru has a huge chance of a life time here to fire Ruto! What Ruto is doing is treasonable and he must be held accountable! We can use some of the money he has stolen to continue building Kimwerer and Arrow dams for the ben for of the people!

At the end of the day, Uhuru is the one who calls all the shots and he can do to Ruto as he sees fit for the sake of Kenya!

Achieng (not verified)     Sat, 08/07/2021 @ 07:14pm

This guy looks like a terrorist for real! Has Ruto and his elks (sudi and Murkomen) joined Alshabab now?

Moses (not verified)     Sat, 08/07/2021 @ 07:20pm

This gut is being used by Ruto to smuggle weapons to Sugoi through Uganda!

It is public knowledge that Ruto has be accumulating weaponry for a long time! Has the CID searched Ruto’s upcountry homes?

There is no business man in this guy as you can see! The 15 billion shillings loan from Equity is guaranteed by DP Ruto! The guy is just a conduit for Ruto to by arms from Uganda!

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