Embattled Bungoma Senator Moses Wetangula has come out to hit at Deputy President William Ruto for his alleged ‘attacks’ on the Luyha community.
In what is seen as a strategy to take refuge in the community’s name, Wetangula who has been adversely mentioned in the gold scandal, challenged Deputy President William Ruto to come out and concede that he’s targeting the Luhya community with gold scandals after he refused to back his 2022 Presidential ambition.
According to Wetangula, all leaders in the Western region allied to NASA are ready to move forward, a move that would bring to the humiliating defeat of William Ruto in 2022.
“You cannot tap all my phone calls with an agenda of fighting me politically. Ruto should come out and tell us why he is poking his nose into my business when it is evident that there is a consensus between the conflicting parties” Senator Moses Wetangula said
In the un-dated phone conversation, Wetangula is heard assuring the gold scammer, whose cargo is held by the government under Interior security ministry that all will be well.
He says that ODM party leader Raila had met President Kenyatta over the cargo, and that it would be released soon.
“Raila met with the Head of State on this matter and explained to him and the head of state has called the minister (Matiang’i). In the course of this week we will be able to finish this matter once and for all,” says Wetangula.
The man, whom Wetangula refers to as ‘brother’, seems agitated over something they had agreed with the senator. Wetangula says ‘something’ is happening, that has caused the delay and that it would be sorted once the President arrives from a one week tour in Mauritius.
Weeks after the conversation, several people have been arrested in connection to scamming foreigners millions of money lying to them that they would sell gold to them.
In a damning report dubbed “Report of Zandi”, the senator is said to have been the intermediary in the deal that ripped off the Vice President and Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates, and ruler of the Emirate of Dubai Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum.
Here is the leaked phone call;