President Uhuru Kenyatta is again politically held at gunpoint with the opposition ready to spread their bullets to the head of state. The reason President Uhuru Kenyatta is in this death and life situation is the mess done by his “golden boy.”
The Deputy De facto Prime Minister Henry Rotich in the new executive headed by CS Fred Matiang’i is has been mentioned in the latest multi-billion scam.
Now the opposition leader Musalia Mudavadi is holding a gun on President Uhuru’s head forcing him to send his golden boy home.
The former deputy prime minister said officials heading parastatals mentioned in the scandals should also quit for effective investigations. “For a start, the Cabinet secretaries for Treasury and Water and the officers associated with this matter, including the CEO of Kerio Valley Development Authority, must go,” Musalia said in a statement yesterday.
He was responding to media reports that Sh38 billion was irregularly allocated to an Italian company to build Arror dam.
The allocation was done without regard for procurement procedure.
Other scandals involved Itare Dam Water Supply Project in Nakuru and Kimwarer Multi-Purpose Dam Project in Elgeyo-Marakwet.
The two were to be built at a cost of Sh40 billion and Sh28 billion respectively.
“We spent Sh21 billion on a project that had not even been designed. We carried out due diligence several months after making the payment,” the ANC boss said.
“We did the so-called due diligence in South Africa and not in Italy, where the bankrupt company is domiciled.”
Musalia said the two CSs’ continued stay in office will compromise prosecution and deny Kenyans justice. “If they don’t resign, President Uhuru Kenyatta must sack them, forthwith. It is pointless to investigate persons who are still in office.”
Mudavadi asked Uhuru to take the war against corruption seriously, saying graft has denied Kenyans basic services.
He said the dam projects were deliberately conceived to be phantom assignments to provide avenues for stealing. “These people should not just be allowed to go home to enjoy their stolen wealth. They must be taken to court and ultimately to jail,” Musalia said.
He also wants the suspects’ assets frozen pending their recovery. “I reiterate my call that it is time to move from handshakes to handcuffs.”
He asked Parliament to reject budgets designed for theft and called on the DCI to conduct thorough investigations.