A section of Tanga Tanga MPs led by Kikuyu MP Kimani Ichung’wah has accused the Directorate of Criminal Investigation(DCI) of going for those allied to the Deputy President William Ruto in efforts to undermine his 2022 political ambitions.
Speaking on Thursday, the MP summoned the DCI to get to the bottom of the matter, noting that there were a lot of sideshows in the way the case was being handled.
“What we are seeing today are sideshows to destruct and divert the nation from the issue of the assassination of Deputy President William Ruto,” he ranted.
He went on to defend the arrested State House employee Denis Itumbi arguing that the DCI arrested his because of association himself with Ruto.
“What is on trial is not Dennis Itumbi but 2022 succession politics. It has become a norm to criminalise anyone who is seen to be associated with the Deputy President William Ruto,” he continued.
Ichungwá is not the first politician from the Jubilee to claim that the arrest of Itumbi is DCI’s plot to of trying to divert the public’s attention from the alleged meeting held at La Mada hotel by some of the cabinet secretaries through the arrest of Itumbi.
Elgeiyo Marakwet Senator Kipchumba Murkomen questioned if there was a meeting that took place at La Mada, if the Permanent Secretary in charge of DCI indeed said Ruto must be stopped the same way Saitoti was, saying the authenticity of the allegations was more important than the letter itself.
Arrest of @OleItumbi is a strategy to divert attention from the La Mada meeting&plan.Was there a meeting?Did PS in charge of DCI say Ruto must be stopped Saitoti way?Who complained about assassination?And to who?The authenticity of the allegations is more important than a letter
— KIPCHUMBA MURKOMEN, E.G.H (@kipmurkomen) July 3, 2019
Itumbi was arrested while having lunch at a Nairobi Hotel on Wednesday. The DCI believes he is involved in the drafting of a letter alleging the assassination of the Deputy President.
The officers said they had traced the source of the letter and were about to summon those they suspect authored it.
“We are pretty confident that we are about to find those behind the letter. All we can tell you is that no cabinet secretary wrote the letter,” one of the officers said.
Dennis Itumbi has been bundled into this car by people believed to be police. pic.twitter.com/oMzZ3Z7hjX
— Grace Kerongo (@hotsecretz) July 3, 2019