Former deputy prime minister Musalia Mudavadi has made another fresh demands to President Uhuru Kenyatta. The Amani National Congress leader has asked the head of state to stop public-private partnerships to save public resources.
Mudavadi said PPPs are the new avenues used by top government officials to steal national resources and he wants the public assets and liabilities audited.
Mudavadi said the public no longer trusts the Jubilee administration to manage public assets and wants the officials held accountable.
“This whole thing about the JKIA, the KAA and KQ has the stench of corruption. The events around the so-called KQ and KAA merger must be made public,” Musalia said in a statement yesterday.
He added, “So far, they smack of an uncontrollable appetite for ill-gotten wealth.”
Mudavadi also wants issues raised by unions representing employees in state institutions respected since “they support the interests of masses.”
“As a nation, we are meanwhile coming to terms with the reality that we have been dancing with wolves,” he said.
Mudavadi said the Kenya Ports Authority is secretly being transferred to the Kenya National Shipping Line in “another developing mega scam”.
“There are highly placed persons in government, working with European foreigners towards this wicked goal. We will not allow our port to go.”
He asked President Uhuru to freeze dealings in the public assets saying the public faith in the integrity of his administration has eroded.
“These past few days alone, Kenyans have been treated to contradictory official explanations of what could be happening to their finances, regarding purported procurement to construct dams in various parts of the country,” Mudavadi said.
He said those stealing public funds are the same officials in government entrusted by the public to manage and protect them.
“It requires a most stone-hearted individual to live well with his conscience after using such poor people as the excuse to plunder the country. Worse still is that such individuals would still have the temerity to stand before the world and attempt to give comical explanations,” he said.
He said funds stolen denied Kenyans basic facilities such as water, good roads, better health centres, and ample education facilities
“Put this together with other acts of plunder in KPLC, Galana KulaIu, NYS, Afya house, Ketraco, NHIF, KFS, Eurobond, and IEBC, among many other scandals. You witness an expansive landscape of unbridled graft in state office,” he said.
The ANC leader warned that the only assignment left for Uhuru is a frontal war against the grand larceny in his government, which has opened up space for similar activities in counties.
“ANC notes with deep concern the brutal manner in which the government has dealt with aviation workers currently on strike against the foregoing happenings in their sector. We condemn this in the strongest language possible.”
He added, “The aviation workers gave a strike notice, as required by law. Yet nobody engaged them. This is a huge shame in this day and age of open governance.”
Mudavadi said incompetence and corruption in the Jubilee administration are chasing both investors and visitors away.