The National Alliance side of the ruling Jubilee Coalition yesterday told off its URP partners linked to the NYS saga and asked them to carry their own crosses.
And Cord leader Raila Odinga said his coalition will hold those who have embezzled public funds and grabbed public property accountable if it takes power in 2017.
Speaking in Kisii, Raila said it is possible to stop massive waste of taxpayers’ money and graft, something he insisted the Jubilee government has failed to do.
“Cord will not defend any governor who will be involved in graft. I am urging governors not to duplicate what is happening in the national government,” he said.
The secretary general of President Uhuru Kenyatta’s party TNA, Onyango Oloo, told those named in the NYS scam not to drag the Jubilee Coalition into the matter and instead seek to clear their names individually.
Former Devolution CS Anne Waiguru has linked Majority leader Adan Duale, Senator Kipchumba Murkomen, Deputy President William Ruto’s PA Farouk Kibet and a man she claims is Ruto’s brother, Luke Samoei, to the multi-million-shilling scandal.
“Those leaders were entrusted with public jobs and none was sent on a looting mission,” said Oloo at a media conference in Nairobi.
Oloo spoke as Ruto, through his Communication secretary David Mugonyi, denied any relationship with the man named by Waiguru as his brother.
“Note that the Deputy President has no brother by the name Luke Samoei Kimutai as alleged in memos or affidavits and reported in some sections of the media,” he said.
Samoei on his part also denied any relationship with Ruto, but confirmed having visited NYS headquarters.
“I have been to NYS headquarters; I was looking for the procurement officer. I went and the first time I did not meet him but did so the second time, then I gave him the profile for that company,” he stated.
Gatundu South MP Moses Kuria yesterday defended Waiguru, but asked her not to draw Jubilee into the scandal.
“Come slow I say! I have been your strong defender but you are taking things a little too far. It’s normal to want to lean on to something when falling down but you will ruin our party,” said Kuria.
Kieni MP Kanini Kega also asked Duale to stop dragging the coalition into what he referred as “personal issues”.
Kega said Duale and Murkomen, who is also the Senate deputy Majority leader, should both step aside pending investigations.
Raila was in Kisii University grounds during the official opening of the Kisii County Entrepreneurship Summit, which will run for three days.
He declared Cord will run a clean government, saying current events in the Jubilee government are worrying, as it has resorted to corruption to ensure that it wins the next elections.
Raila said Jubilee government has broken every record in regard to corruption.