Opposition Chief Raila Odinga has once again hit out at Deputy President William Ruto saying that he has turned churches into his money laundering avenues which he has obtained illegally from public coffers.
Speaking on Saturday during a church function in Ahero, Kisumu County, Raila also criticized religious centers whom he said were slowly becoming a stumbling block in the fight against corruption, noting that they are among the major beneficiaries of looted money dished out by Ruto as donations and fundraisers.
“What we have been saying is that we have seen churches being used as avenues for laundering money acquired illegally. We cannot fight corruption if we cannot fight it’s tentacles. Every weekend people are going for Harambees in churches and donating money with the faithfuls clapping for them without questioning the source of their money,” Raila said without mentioning Ruto’s name.
Odinga now wants religious leaders to support President Uhuru Kenyatta in the fight against graft by turning down Ruto’s ‘looted’ donations.
Raila has for a long time been consistently critical of Ruto’s huge donations to churches terming them as proceeds of graft stolen from impoverished Kenyan taxpayers’ public coffers.
Ruto has, however, oftenly dismissed Raila’s accusations terming him a mean witch who doesn’t know the value of generosity as a virtue.