You cannot just show up at someone's house unannounced, a granddaughter of retired President Daniel Moi has hit back at DP William Ruto.
Ruto flew to Moi's home in Kabarak on Thursday but failed to meet him after waiting for three hours.
It is not clear if Ruto had an appointment but sources close to the Moi family say there was none.
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"There was a protocol fail on the DP's side, you cannot just show up... without prior arrangements. Least forgetting that Moi is still a well-respected statesman," Laila Denise Ibrahim said via Facebook on Friday
Quoting a sentence from a philosopher Machiavelli, Laila said Ruto needs to understand that nothing is so self-defeating as generosity.
"DP you need to understand just as Machiavelli wrote in his book; "…a prince should guard himself, above all things, against being despised and hated; and generosity leads you to both. It is wiser to have a reputation as a miser, which brings disdain without hatred, than by seeking a reputation for generosity to incur a name for rapacity which begets both disdain and hatred.”
Laila asked Ruto to call a truce between him and her uncle Baringo Senator Gideon Moi.
"Seek out a different strategy and approach and get rid of sycophancy and people who are capitalising on your rivalry..." she said.
"Bear with each other and forgive one another if any of you has a grievance against someone. Forgive as the Lord forgave you."
Via the star Kenya
