• He says organisations like World Bank have written to the government protesting the level of in the water sector.
• Vihiga Governor Wilber Ottichilo wants management of sugar sector to be left to county governments.
ANC leader Musalia Mudavadi says the nation is in crisis and elders should not protect corrupt people from their communities.
Mudavadi elders must to stand firm and ensure the country is integrated and the leadership focuses on real issues "rather than empty rhetoric".
“The real issue is the fight against corruption. We should not at any time imagine that things are good in this country. The country is headed in the wrong direction,” he said.
He said elders should rally Kenyans behind the war against corruption and reject being used as shields by the corrupt from their communities.
Mudavadi said organisations like the World Bank have written to the government protesting the level of corruption in the water sector. Corruption is hurting funding of the sector, he said.
He said corruption in the Arror and Kimwarer dam projects— where Sh21 billion is suspected to have been stolen—has affected funding for other projects, including construction of dykes along River Nzoia in Budalang'i.
Mudavadi spoke during the burial of Elam Lumwaji at Naliava village in Ikolomani constituency on Sunday. Lumwaji was a personal assistant to Mudavadi’s father Substone Budamba.
The ANC leader said it was disheartening that those who were known as champions of anti-corruption have since "changed tune after joining Deputy President William Ruto’s camp".
Vihiga governor Wilber Ottichilo, Cotu boss Francis Atwoli, Kakamega and Vihiga women representatives Elsie Muhanda and Beatrice Adagala, Hamisi MP Charles Gimose and Ikolomani MP Bernard Shinali were present.
Ottichilo said Luhya leaders have agreed to work together on development. He asked elected leaders to end premature campaigns.
“As governors from Western Kenya, we want management of the sugar sector to be left to county governments since agriculture is devolved. We want to manage even the proposed privatisation to ensure the process benefits our people,” Ottichilo said.
Gimose said he supports the handshake but "it should not be used to wreck Jubilee party just to stop DP Ruto from ascending to power."
Shinali said asked Mudavadi, Ford Kenya leader Moses Wetang’ula, Kakamega Governor Wycliffe Oparanya, and Devolution CS Eugene Wamalwa to agree on one among themselves to fly the Luhya presidential flag in 2022.
“It's Luhya's time to take the country’s leadership but as leaders, we must sit down and reflect on the destiny of the community because we’re failing in leadership and voters will judge us harshly,” he said.