DP Ruto Denies Helping Turkish Businessman Harun Aydin Acquire Ksh15B Loan
The controversy surrounding the deportation of a Turkish businessman, Harun Aydin, has taken a new twist after DP William Ruto denying helping him secure a loan.
Gathogo Wanjiru 
Through his spokesperson David Mugonyi on Wednesday, he said that he at no point did DP Ruto helped the Turk secure a facility from any bank.
Reports had earlier indicated that Ruto had allegedly helped the Turk secure a Ksh15 billion loan to set up a pharmaceutical company in neighboring Uganda.
Ruto said that the investor he helped acquire a loan two years ago was from East Africa, and not the deported Turkish national.
"The Deputy President did not help Aydin get money from the bank. He helped some Eastern African investors and this was two years ago," noted Ruto's spokesperson.
Mugonyi accused MPs of twisting Ruto's words during the National Assembly Finance and National Planning Committee inquiry into the financing claims.
During a televised interview days after being blocked from leaving the country for Kampala, Uganda, the DP revealed that he had made a call to a local bank and within days, an investor had been granted a Ksh15 billion loan.
He claimed to have helped the investor start a vaccine-manufacturing plant in Uganda.
Ruto had flown out on Tuesday, July 6, to meet Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni where the two jointly launched the plant.
"The Ugandan President had invited me to fly to his country during the launch of the vaccine manufacturing facility to fight the deadly virus. The investor of the manufacturing facility had come to me for help in acquiring a loan of Ksh15 billion, and I offered to help," stated Ruto.
The Deputy President has been under fire for his relationship with the Turkish investor, and for allegedly not coming to the aid of Kenyan investors seeking capital to start or expand businesses locally.
