For the umpteenth time, the fiery COTU chair Francis Atwoli has found himself in the middle of a storm over remarks he made at a campaign rally in Lamu county.
This week, a video on social media showed the labour chair making utterances against Mr Ruto that have not ended well.
Atwoli had alleged that Deputy President (DP) William Ruto will not be in the ballot in the 2022 presidential elections.
In retaliation, Oscar Sudi has revealed some chilling details concerning the Cotu chair in relation to the murder of former Kabete Kabete MP George Muchai.
Former Kabete MP George Muchai killing was well planned and executed according to evidence presented in court in 2014.
But prior to the legislator’s death, Mr Muchai and Mr Atwoli had been engaged in a series of legal battles.
The late MP had asked the High Court to freeze Cotu’s bank accounts as he alleged the union’s top officials were mismanaging workers’ funds.
Mr Muchai alleges that there had been rampant embezzlement, misappropriation and mismanagement of worker’s deductions which translate into Sh 190 billion.
Muchai who is also Kabete MP was asking the Labour Relations court to direct the registrar of trade unions to audit the accounts of COTU.
Mr Muchai had disclosed in the court pleadings that COTU Secretary General Francis Atwoli was operating 13 secret accounts which he wanted the court to order six commercial banks to reveal those behind the opening of the suspicious accounts.
The former Kabete MP George Muchai was shot dead on the early morning of Saturday at the Kenyatta Avenue-Uhuru Highway roundabout in Nairobi.
A newspaper vendor who witnessed the shooting told the police that one of the gunmen who led the shooting had a face mask. Two of the MP’s bodyguards and his driver also died in the incident.
Oscar Sudi has linked Atwoli to the murder of the former politician and now wants the secretary-general of the Central Organisation of Trade Unions Mr Francis Atwoli to explain his involvement.
This is what sycophancy can reduce you to. The kind of leadership that has destroyed the tenets and fabric of our economy. Wezi, Thugs, inciters, looters, nothing they haven’t done. And Oscar Sudi is their spokesman. Total disgrace. pic.twitter.com/xAq6IbO5oK— Lord Abraham Mutai (@ItsMutai) April 15, 2019