The headline on the Star newspaper on Wednesday, ‘Matiang’i goes to war with DP Ruto’, was misleading and cannot go unchallenged. The sustained negative publicity about the DP by the Star newspaper is unfair. The paper has on several occasions run outrageous banner headlines about Ruto, including ‘Ruto gives Sh17 million in two months’, ‘Ruto loses grip of Rift Valley’, ‘Ruto builds mansion worth billions of shillings’, to name but a few, to tarnish his image. But the Star newspaper has demonstrated in what it has published about Ruto in the recent past that it is pursuing a personal vendetta against the DP. Ruto’s opponents and the management of the Star newspaper need to take a wider perspective of the DP’s activities instead of narrowing themselves as a weapon to wage unsustainable political attacks against him.

Source: The Star December 19, 2018 21:11 UTC