{"id":85817,"date":"2023-03-04T16:18:09","date_gmt":"2023-03-04T16:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/mp-otiende-rubbishes-ruto-installation-as-luo-elder"},"modified":"2023-03-04T16:38:09","modified_gmt":"2023-03-04T16:38:09","slug":"mp-otiende-rubbishes-ruto-installation-as-luo-elder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/mp-otiende-rubbishes-ruto-installation-as-luo-elder","title":{"rendered":"MP Otiende rubbishes Ruto installation as Luo elder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Kenya. <\/strong><\/span>Rarienda MP Otiende Amollo has rubbished a section of Luo elders who installed President William Ruto as the community&#8217;s elder. The MP termed such elders a cultural prostitutes who should be dealt with by the community&#8217;s leadership.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on Saturday during the burial of Luo Council of Elders chairman Ker Wilis Opiyo Otondi, Otiende said the community cannot be up for auction by errant elders.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe people who purported to install William Ruto a Luo elder are called as cultural prostitutes and must be dealt with by the community,\u201d Otiende said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have been the Luo Council of Elders for 18 years and I know that the legitimate council chairman was Otondi.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When President Ruto toured Luo Nyanza in January he was crowned as a Luo elder in Asembo, Rarieda constituency in Siaya County. This was during the homecoming ceremony of ICT Cabinet Secretary Honourable Eliud Owalo.<\/p>\n<p>Ruto was given a traditional headgear, a bow, a spear and was dressed in a clothe made of an animal&#8217;s skin. He was crowned as Luo elder as he sat on a stool and after that and was pictured while holding spear and the bow.<\/p>\n<p>Ruto&#8217;s installation was presided over by the chairman of Luo splinter group or a faction Nayndiko Ongadi. In a another political punch at Ruto, Otiende warned rebels from the region who have been trooping to State House ostensibly for development projects.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose are called political prostitutes and should be told as such,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>A section of ODM MPs from Luo Nyanza has warmed up to Ruto&#8217;s administration, saying they will work with the national government for the sake of development.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\">Kenya<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Kenya. Rarienda MP Otiende Amollo has rubbished a section of Luo elders who installed President William Ruto as the community&#8217;s elder. The MP termed such elders a cultural prostitutes who should be dealt with by the community&#8217;s leadership. Speaking on Saturday during the burial of Luo Council of Elders chairman Ker Wilis Opiyo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":85815,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12],"tags":[6857,7003,544],"class_list":["post-85817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-kenya","tag-kenya"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>MP Otiende rubbishes Ruto installation as Luo elder - kenya<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Rarienda MP Otiende Amollo has rubbished a section of Luo elders who installed President William Ruto as the community&#039;s ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/mp-otiende-rubbishes-ruto-installation-as-luo-elder\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"MP Otiende rubbishes Ruto installation as Luo elder\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Rarienda MP Otiende Amollo has rubbished a section of Luo elders who installed President William Ruto as the community&#039;s ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/mp-otiende-rubbishes-ruto-installation-as-luo-elder\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"kenya\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-03-04T16:18:09+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-03-04T16:38:09+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sites\/28\/2023\/03\/postQueueImg_1677934100.95.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"540\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/mp-otiende-rubbishes-ruto-installation-as-luo-elder#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/mp-otiende-rubbishes-ruto-installation-as-luo-elder\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"MP Otiende rubbishes Ruto installation as Luo elder\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-03-04T16:18:09+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-03-04T16:38:09+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/mp-otiende-rubbishes-ruto-installation-as-luo-elder\"},\"wordCount\":297,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/mp-otiende-rubbishes-ruto-installation-as-luo-elder#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sites\/28\/2023\/03\/postQueueImg_1677934100.95.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Kenya\",\"Kenya\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/mp-otiende-rubbishes-ruto-installation-as-luo-elder#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/mp-otiende-rubbishes-ruto-installation-as-luo-elder\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/mp-otiende-rubbishes-ruto-installation-as-luo-elder\",\"name\":\"MP Otiende rubbishes Ruto installation as Luo elder - 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