•CS Kuria alleged that at Bomas, it was the closest he had ever come to death.
•The CS highlighted that he would like to hear Uhuru's side on what transpired at the Bomas of Kenya during the tallying of the August 2022 general elections.
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Public Service Cabinet Secretary Moses Kuria has revealed he holds no grudge against his former party leader Uhuru Kenyatta.
Kuria who was speaking during an interview with KTN, said that he only has a question which he hopes the former President would answer.
" I have zero grudges with Uhuru Kenyatta, atleast on my side. I have no grudge against Uhuru Kenyatta. I have only one question I would like to ask when I meet him," Kuria said on Monday.
The CS highlighted that he would like to hear Uhuru's side on what transpired at the Bomas of Kenya during the tallying of the August 2022 general elections.
Kuria alleged that at Bomas, it was the closest he had ever come to death.
" I have only one question I would like to ask when I meet him (Uhuru), something about Bomas of Kenya during vote tallying. This is due to how he allowed the country to descend into what could be catastrophic," the CS explained.
The former Gatundu South MP claimed that if God hadn't been on the Kenya Kwanza coalition side, we could be talking a different story.
"The Bomas issue is the only thing that bothers me. The rest we can deal with and repair," he said.
"If he (Uhuru) explains what really happened, we can forgive each other and move forward together for the future as brothers and friends," Kuria added.
Bomas of Kenya was the nerve centre for the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission but witnessed chaotic scenes ahead of the declaration of the presidential results.
Kenyans went to the ballot on August 9, 2023 to elect their President in what many observers said was the country's most peaceful and efficient elections in history.
However, the dramatic scenes that rocked the venue for the declaration of presidential elections put the country on the edge following a standoff among IEBC commissioners.
Before retired IEBC chairperson Wafula Chebukati declared President William Ruto the winner of the contest on August 15, there was total pandemonium at the auditorium and within Bomas.
Ruto was declared the winner by IEBC after garnering 7,176,141 (50.49%), votes against Raila's 6,942,930 (48.85%) amid tight security after days of chaos.
On the day ( August 13, 2023) Chebukati was to announce the results, tension was high in the auditorium as Azimio allied MPs attempted to block him from announcing the presidential election outcome.
Following the disruption, police had to whisk away Chebukati before order was restored.
Azimio leaders claimed Raila had been rigged out and that the final results of the presidential election could not be verified.
Chairs were thrown and punches nearly exchanged as both sides of the political divide fought to gain control of the main dais where the results were to be announced.
Police intervened and restored normalcy before Chebukati declared the results after a major split in the commission.
He was backed by Abadi Guliye and Boya Molu and the Chief Executive Officer, Hussein Marjan.