Agriculture Cabinet Secretary Mithika Linturi now says the detractors of the Kenya Kwanza administration are behind what he termed as a fake fertiliser narrative.
The CS said while he will continue to listen to Kenyans complaining about the supply of substandard fertiliser, he will not give a listening ear to opponents of the government.
According to the CS, politicians who have continuously opposed the government's programmes including its subsidised fertiliser subsidy project would have no objectivity in their ''stories''.
Linturi who spoke on Citizen TV on Thursday night, insisted that he has never admitted to the supply of fake fertiliser in the market.
"What I have repeatedly said is that there is substandard fertiliser and not fake fertiliser being supplied to some people outside the government's subsidy programme," Linturi said.
The CS rubbished claims crooks had infiltrated the government's fertiliser subsidy programme.
He said the substandard fertilisers in the market are not supplied by the government through its subsidy programme.
"From a political point of view, you would know that those people who have never wished you, this administration or this programme well would dismiss us even if we said let's go back to the farms; that is the advice that I cannot easily take," Linturi said.
"Those are not the people to best advise us but whenever they say we would pick that and try to counterchek."
At the same time, Linturi dismissed claims that he had failed to act when complaints were raised about fake fertilisers in the market saying he took action and put on hold the supply by the suspected company.
"When this matter arose and I was away, my PS acted with a lot of speed and said that let's hold on to confirm if the argument out there is true or not; that action was a measure of diligence,'' Linturi said during the 9 pm show.
He insisted that his position remains that there was fake news about the government supplying fake subsidy fertiliser.
