Deputy president William Ruto has said that the DCI does not have the constitutional mandate to investigate economic crimes while arguing that it is beyond Kinoti’s capacity.
In the well-organized scheme against the DCI, Belgut MP Nelson Koech was the first to draw a line in the sand against Kinoti. “The drafters of the Constitution were very clear in their mind when they dissociated DCI from EACC.
Today we declare that we no longer have confidence in the office of the DCI. We want all economic matters to be taken over by EACC,” Mr Koech said.
However, the Jubilee and opposition MPs in Limuru jumped to the DCI’s defence.
“The DCI is not going anywhere. If Murkomen wants the position he should first resign from his role as a senator but he should know that no one is replacing Kinoti,” Mwathi said.
Dr Ruto argued that DCI, which is headed by George Kinoti, lacks backing by law to probe economic crimes, adding that it should hand over investigations to the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC).
Ruto is protesting the alleged misappropriation of funds allocated to the Kimwarer and Itare dams in Elgeyo Marakwet in which he denied that KSh 21B had been lost.
The DP had called it a pure lie and urged the investigating department to fight the war on corruption with facts.
“The fight against corruption must proceed on the basis of correct information and by competent institutions that have the constitutional mandate and institutional capacity so that we can have results,” said Ruto at Kapng’etuny in Ainamoi constituency yesterday.
He added: “We will refuse and reject any attempt by people to put together a political narrative using corruption and propaganda to drive a scheme to undermine Government programmes and projects, with the aim of destroying the Big Four agenda.”
Why does Ruto want the investigations handed over to the EACC yet were fighting the same war? Does he have his men in EACC?