Millicent Omanga is a legislator has credited her success to Deputy President William Ruto. Before her entry in politics, Omanga was a small time businesswoman. Her first appointment as a director of the Kenya Electricity Generating Company (KenGen) and subsequent nomination as a Jubilee senator was the work of Ruto in 2013 and 2017 respectively. She told SDE of how she received a call that changed her life when she was “haggling over the price of 30 bedsheets at a shop in town, with the hope of reselling them at a profit.”

 “When CS Chirchir called and asked if I was in Nairobi before directing me to rush to his office, I wondered what I had done. I got to his office and he informed me that the following day, KenGen would be holding its annual general meeting and that I had been nominated as one of the directors. I could not believe it,” she shared during an end year party for a company associated with South Mugirango MP Sylvanus Osoro.

When her ambition to become Nairobi women came a cropper it was the DP who came to her rescue and she had full of praises for a man who is under siege from his boss:

How William Ruto became was heaven sent to Senator Millicent Omanga

“I ran for the Nairobi Woman Rep seat, but I did not make it. But that one man believed in my potential. If it were not for William Ruto, I would not be a senator today. He believes in empowering young people. He believes in empowerment of women,” she told the gathering.

“I ran for the Nairobi Woman Rep seat, but I did not make it. But that one man believed in my potential. If it were not for William Ruto, I would not be a senator today. He believes in empowering young people. He believes in empowerment of women,” she said of her political godfather.