• Ruto had challenged President Uhuru Kenyatta to release an investigation file he had promised on the Sh7.8 billion Kemsa scandal.
• Murathe admitted that the Jubilee government failed to prosecute and jail people facing corruption cases.
Jubilee Party vice-chair David Murathe has claimed that the Kenya Kwanza coalition has the most baggage when it comes to corruption.
Speaking on Tuesday at K24, Murathe called out Deputy President William Ruto as a hypocrite, claiming that he knows the companies and people behind the Kenya Medical Supplies Authority (Kemsa) scandal.
He even went ahead and mentioned one company claiming to be linked to a family member of the DP and another to a gubernatorial candidate associated with the Kenya Kwanza Alliance.
Murathe admitted that people within the Azimio Coalition were also involved in the Kemsa scandal, but only those in the medical business.
"All those companies known by Ruto some are linked to people in his camp, and even in Azimio there are people involved but they are in the medical business," he said.
He claimed that Ruto cannot be a solution to fighting corruption in Kenya.
“How is it that people surrounding the deputy president are involved in theft and corruption cases. That is why we refer to them as Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves,” he added
“I challenge Kenya Kwanza people to come and present evidence of Azimio people being involved in corruption cases.”
In February this year, Ruto challenged President Uhuru Kenyatta to release an investigation file he had promised on the Sh7.8 billion Kemsa scandal. He alleged that ODM leader Raila Odinga had benefited from the scam.
But the Jubilee vice-chair has said when Raila wins the presidential race his government will investigate all pending corruption cases, including the Kemsa scam.
This was as he admitted that one of the failures of the Jubilee government was the failure to prosecute and jail people facing corruption cases.
“If the biggest failure of this administration is the failure to jail people because some people should be in jail right now. When Azimio says they will investigate all the corruption cases, people better be ready because Kenyans deserve an answer,” he stated.
Murathe explained that if Azimio forms the next government, they will have laws where corruption cases will have a timeline.
He said many people accused of corruption are wealthy and use their means to slow down the court processes.
“Corruption fights back, and people with money can drag the cases. When we revive the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI), some of these cases will be dealt with within a year,” he said.
In the recommendations, BBI had suggested that Chapter Six on Leadership and Integrity should be changed to intensify the fight against corruption by strengthening the relevant institutions.
This included providing a mechanism for the expeditious conducting of investigations, prosecution and trial of corruption-related matters.