SUSPECTS OF RUTO SHOE INCIDENT DECLARED INNOCENT

Investigations have redeemed the three suspects who were arrested for allegedly throwing a shoe at President William Ruto during his Migori development tour. The trio have been exonerated without charges following an investigation which proved the act as accidental rather than intentional.

The shoe was hurled towards president Ruto while he was addressing a crowd at Kehancha on May 5.
However, the President blocked it with his hand , immediately kept poised and continued with his speech , after a brief altercation between the security and the crowd. Moreover, the issue seemed not to affect him in any way, and this resilience was met with a thunderous applaud from his audience .

Detectives jumped into action arresting 18-year-old young man, Paul Mutongori Marwa, as the main suspect alongside two others who were reportedly heckling at the president.

However, investigations from the footages revealed that, the members of the crowd were using their phones to capture the event while one other person raised a shoe , probably mocking the others, when another individual allegedly hit the shoe, which was blocking the view, making it to inadvertently digress towards the President's side.

After several reviews, they concluded that there was no deliberate intention to hit the president.

In a dramatic twist, the Chair of Presidential Special Projects , Dennis Itumbi described the occurrence as a “creative moment gone wrong,” maintaining that it was not meant to attack the president.

Moreover, Itumbi stated that he is in search of the alleged, promising to gift him a smartphone , from Sam Mburu, a business man, to support his content creation journey.