NEW YORK, US
Ruthless and untrustworthy –
these are the words the United Nations Deputy Secretary General (SG) Amina Jane
Mohammed reportedly used to describe President William Ruto to her boss Antonio
Guterres, the Secretary General of the United Nations.A collage of UN's Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed, Kenya's President William Ruto, and US President Joe Biden.
The candid conversation was
revealed in secret files from the United States security agencies that were
leaked online.
The conversation happened in a
February meeting between the two UN bosses.
In the leaked documents,
Mohammed confessed to Guterres that Ruto is “ruthless’ and that she
"doesn't trust him."
This is bound to cause jitters
as Kenya is one of the
four countries in the world with United Nations headquarters.
The United Nations Environment
Programme (UNEP) was founded in June 1972 and is headquartered in Gigiri,
Nairobi.
Previously, the 61-year-old
Nigerian diplomat met Ruto at State House on October 5, 2022, where they
discussed the impact of climate change.
The leaked documents first
appeared on Discord – a social media platform popular among gamers.
This revelation counters US
President Joe Biden’s trust in Ruto and his administration.
In a letter dated February 6
by US Ambassador Meg Whitman to Biden's Advisory Council of Doing Business in
Africa, she described Ruto as a smart and reforms-oriented man.
In the letter seen by by our reporter, Whitman
outlined Ruto's peace-making efforts in Ethiopia and the Democratic Republic of
Congo.
"The New President,
William Ruto, is very strong. He is smart, strategic, and gets things done. He
is hands-on and easy to work with.
"He understands that
economic growth and development is the way forward and has set a vision for
accelerating Kenya's drive to achieve upper middle-income country status by
2030," she stated.
President Ruto met Antonio
Guterres in New York, USA, in September 2022 after becoming Kenya's 5th Head of
State.
Ruto was leading Kenya's
delegation at the 77th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA).
UN Deputy SG Amina Jane
Mohammed was born in Liverpool, England, to a Nigerian father and a British
mother in 1961.
She served three Nigerian
presidents rising to become Federal Minister of Environment under President
Muhammadu Buhari from November 2015 to February 2017.
She also served as a Special
Adviser to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in 2015.
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