NASA has given DPP Keriako Tobiko seven days to prosecute
seven CSs, a principal secretary and a KRA boss for allegedly using state resources to campaign for Jubilee.
Education Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang'i, Water CS Eugene Wamalwa, Devolution's Mwangi Kiunjuri and Joseph Nkaissery of Interior are among leaders targeted by NASA.
The others are James Macharia (Transport), Najib Balala (Tourism), Cleopa Mailu (Health), Energy PS Joseph Njoroge and KRA boss John Njiraini.
“When the head of government's chief revenue collection agency is a direct donor of taxpayers' money to a political party, then the National Treasury and the economy are in jeopardy,” said a tough-talking ANC leader
Musalia Mudavadi.
Njiraini and Njoroge are part of the technical committee, operating under the umbrella of the Friends of Jubilee Foundation, that
last Friday
raised at least Sh500 million for Uhuru's campaigns.
The Law Society of Kenya had also censured the two government officials and called for their prosecution.
In what signals a tough political battle ahead, NASA has vowed to institute private prosecutions against the key Uhuru allies if Tobiko fails to crack the whip in the seven days.
“Take notice that if you do not take appropriate action against the said officers within seven days from the date hereof, NASA will have no alternative but to instruct our lawyers to institute private prosecutions,” a letter by Raila's lawyer Paul Mwangi reads in part.
The Opposition top brass also wants the IEBC to penalise President Uhuru Kenyatta for allegedly bankrolling his re-election from state coffers and using government funds to lure voters.
“In any case, the government and the state of the Republic of Kenya are not on the ballot. It's Uhuru Kenyatta who is on the ballot,” Musalia told
the press in Nairobi on Thursday.
The state-funded Kenya National Commission on Human Rights had protested that Uhuru's alleged use of state resources and claimed some of his moves amounted to voter bribery.
NASA said the IEBC does not need prompting to penalise the President for using the Presidential Delivery Portal to advertise Jubilee messages.
The coalition
insisted that the DCI, DPP and IEBC are aware of the violations by Uhuru and his men but are quiet in a strategic move to defraud citizens, free, fair and credible polls.
They gave the example of Uhuru dishing out cheques to IDPs, clad in Jubilee colours.
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Siaya Senator James Orengo said nothing bars the DPP from launching a probe against Uhuru saying under the Election Act, Uhuru is a candidate like the rest.
“Kenyans should abandon this notion that the President is above the law. Trump [US President] is under investigations for obstructing justice,”Orengo said.
The government has been on an advertisement spree dubbed the Journey of Transformation and has been flooding prime time news with 'Jubilee achievements'.
The Election Offenses Act prohibits government officers from showcasing government projects during campaigns.