By Mercy Imali
An audio clip that’s purportedly a recording of a Principal Secretary explaining what transpired on the day Ruto’s murder plot was hatched has surface online. The audio clip was purportedly recorded on 14th May, 2019.
The speaker in the audio claims they were summoned to a meeting at the La Mada Hotel through text. They were ushered in by a man who took away their phones.
“As he walked us inside, he also asked that we leave our phones. He took our phones and I remember we walked together with a colleague of mine and a PS who had a laptop and it was also taken away,” a male voice explains The alleged PS, initially thought it was a meeting of the National Development Implementation Technical Committee chaired by Kibicho.
It soon became clear that this wasn’t a normal technical committee government meeting as some CSs were in attendance. They were Peter Munya (Trade), Sicily Kariuki (Health) and Joseph Mucheru (ICT). The three appeared at the Directorate of Criminal Investigations to record statements after a letter allegedly authored by a minister and revealing the alleged assassination plot, appeared online.
Just before the meeting kicked off, a powerful woman who works at State House walked in. He then states, “She went directly to PS Kibicho and sat next to him and they had a conversation. The meeting was chaired by PS Interior. It was him who was in charge of the meeting, while she took the minutes.
Huduma Namba, the referendum and retaining power were the agenda of the meeting
Joe Mucheru allegedly excused himself saying he could not sit through the entire meeting as he had a flight to catch. The PS goes on to say, “He then said he was going to be bound with [sic] what we discussed and he wished us well and so he left.”
The meeting then kicked off with leaders at the meeting asked to return to their rural homes and mobilise their backyards for the registration of Huduma Namba. Leaders were told that a referendum would be conducted before 2022 despite opposition by the Ruto brigade.
He quotes one of the speakers in the meeting who confidently suggested that the state would rig the referendum if it proved a hard tackle.
“Once the referendum was done, even if the side that the government was going to support did not win, they were going to rig it […] he said that is why we should go and help people in the villages to register for Huduma number so that when the time to rig comes, we will use it to rig, whatever it takes,” he quotes the speaker.
Trade CS Peter Munya dismissed the contents of the recording insisting no such discussion took place. “The people who faked the letter are the same ones who have gone and released that audio,” Munya said.
The said speaker went on to chest thump that power will never leave Mt Kenya. The audio refers to another CS who allegedly told the meeting that “no African President has ever relinquished power”.
“He gave some examples including Museveni and he said we have to do everything to stop Ruto,” he quotes the CS.
To reinforce his point, a controversial PS allegedly stood up and said they would do anything to stop the DP.
“To stop Ruto includes doing the impossible, including you know what happened to Saitoti,” the audio claims. The PS also allegedly threatened that MPs from Mt Kenya who are allies of the DP would be crushed.
Deputy President, William Ruto is yet to record a statement with the DCI despite telling the President that his life was in danger.