Amani National Congress (ANC) party leader Musalia Mudavadi has called on President Uhuru Kenyatta to rein on those frustrating his efforts to fight corruption.
Mudavadi said it is time President Kenyatta called their bluff those threatening him and investigative agencies for probing multibillion dam construction scandals.
Mudavadi also asked deputy president William Ruto and his close allies to stop intimidating the office of director of Criminal investigations DCI over the Arror and Kimwarer dam scandal.
The self proclaimed opposition leader, while attacking the deputy president over his recent remarks on the ongoing dams investigations, said Ruto and his allies are “admitting there is a problem, but are now debating on the quantum of the problem.”
He accused the deputy president and section of members of leaders from Rift Valley of intimidating DCI George Kinoti by trying to imply he is not doing his job professionally.
The opposition leader claimed that politicians allied to Deputy President William Ruto are out to push Kenyatta to a corner to make him look like a lame-duck president.
“These are tactics [used] by people who are used to impunity [and want to] intimidate the President so that he can slow down the war on corruption. This is the time that the President’s response should put this matter to an end,” said Mudavadi.
The ANC leader was responding to calls by two Jubilee MPs who dared Kenyatta to dissolve his government if he believes true the allegations of rampant corruption in his administration.
“For instance on the dams scandal, if there are investigations going on why are some people getting unduly worried and speaking about the dams. Why would someone be panicking and try to intimidate investigative agencies? What are you concerned about something if you really know that you are not involved?” Mudavadi asked while speaking at the Royal Court Hotel in Mombasa.
“Why not allow the investigative agencies to do their job, if you are innocent why should you worry?Pilipili usioila yakuwashiani?mbona hawa jamaa wanawashwa,”questioned Mudavadi.
Last week the deputy president for publicly denying reports that the government has lost Sh21 billion allocated to Arror, Kimwarer dams.
The DCI is probing suspected loss of Sh21 billion in the two projects being implemented by the Kerio Valley Development Authority (KVDA). At least 107 firms have been summoned to shed more light on their engagement in the project.
He said if such kind of intimidation remarks made by Ruto allies towards the DCI will be allowed to continue, it may now spill to the president and make him look like a lame duck president.
They are now beginning to intimidate the president to go slow on this matter, they want to make him look like lame dark president,” claimed Mudavadi.
The ANC leader now proposes that speaker of the National assembly of the National assembly to move a motion of adjournment as a matter of agency to discuss the biting corruption that has taken toll in the country.
“I think its now very important for the speaker of the National Assembly to call for a motion of adjournment as a matter of agency to bto discuss on the dark cloud of corruption,” said Mudavadi.
Mudavadi was speaking at a pressconfrenvce atfte meeting with former Lamu governor Issa Timamy in Mombasa hotel yesterday.
On Thursday at the Supreme Court, Ruto hit out at the DCI, saying the agency was prosecuting its cases unprofessionally. He repeated the comments in Nyeri on Saturday.