Siaya senator James Orengo is angry with President Uhuru Kenyatta’s government following the incident that happened in the senate on Tuesday. The senators, who were to vote in support of the motion to adopt a report on Ruaraka land scam involving Interior CS Fred Matiang’i and Education PS Belio Kipsang, turned down the motion. This means that Matiang’i and Belio have now been cleared from the land saga! Is the fight against corruption becoming a pipeline dream forever in Kenya?
The senate minority leader expressed his disappointment in President Kenyatta’s government in his address to the media outside the parliament buildings.
“I say this with a lot of sadness; despite the President’s war against corruption, when the time for voting came, only 15 senators voted in support of the motion to adopt the report. It is like the whole thing was planned. They are cowards. If you can’t vote in the Senate and take a stand you have no business being in Parliament,” Mr Orengo said.
Ruaraka land saga report that incriminated CS Matiangi and Ps Belio Kipsang has been defeated at Senate….
ODM senators led by minority Leader James Orengo are here crying foul ….the fight against corruption remains a pipeline dream— Daniel Muhuni (@danmuhuni) November 27, 2018
The motion required the support of 24 delegations or elected senators, but Nairobi Senator Johnson Sakaja was the only Jubilee member who supported the motion.
Four other senators voted against, with two abstentions. This means that had all the senators in the House supported it, it would still have failed the threshold as only 21 members were in the House at the time of voting.
“Even some of the committee members who had signed in support of the report were not in the House to prove their mettle,” said Mr Orengo.
However, after the vote, five senators claimed their colleagues had been influenced to defeat the report prepared by the County Public Accounts and Investments Committee.
Do you think graft cases involving state officials will ever be handled in any serious way if this is the way to go?