Top news items in Kenya's major media outlets

NAIROBI, May 22 (Xinhua) -- The following are news highlights in major Kenyan media outlets on Tuesday.

-- Deputy President William Ruto was on the firing line of opposition leader Raila Odinga's lieutenants, who told him off for criticizing the Building Bridges initiative between Odinga and President Uhuru Kenyatta and for warning that Odinga is a dictator not fit to lead the country. Ruto made the hard-hitting claims on Sunday, and on Monday, the MPs dismissed the deputy president as a leader who thrives on politics of lies, commotion, hate, division. They also asked him to come clean on the "smell of corruption that permanently swirls around him." (Daily Nation)

-- Female lawmakers in the Senate and county assemblies claim they have come under increased persecution, violation of their rights and verbal sexual attacks in several Houses across the country. (The Standard)

-- Incompetence was on Monday cited as the biggest contributor to complaints against the police, with the Independent Police Oversight Authority noting nearly half of cases it received were due to poor management. (The Star)

-- Expatriates working in Kenya have 60 days to update their details with the Ministry of Interior as the government intensifies its crackdown on foreigners working in the country illegally. (Business Daily) Enditem