According to Rahyafte(the missionaries and converts website):Ruto, who is a Christian, stopped his speech momentarily during the grounding-breaking ceremony of the Affordable Housing Project in Starehe to show respect to Adhan.
The call referred to as Adhan, is the Islamic call to public prayer in a mosque recited by a Muezzin at prescribed times of the day.
Adhan is recited from the mosque five times a day on most days and all day long during the religious holidays of Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha.
The call was recited for three minutes before the President resumed his speech to loud applause from the audience.
On March 22, 2021, Ruto’s predecessor Uhuru Kenyatta touched many Muslim faithful when he paused his speech during Adhan in Tanzania while attending former President John Magufuli’s funeral mass.
Uhuru temporarily stopped his speech for two minutes from 12.53 pm to 12:55 pm in honour of the Adhan in a nearby mosque in Dodoma.
Kenya is a Christian-majority country in east Africa. Muslims constitute some 10 percent of its 55 million population
Source: the-star.co.ke
