Wiper Democratic Movement Party leader Kalonzo Musyoka has urged President Uhuru Kenyatta and relevant government agencies to continue with the war on graft, adding that those ethnicizing the fight should be “forgiven.”
Kalonzo spoke in Busia County on Sunday during a harambee for Kolait Catholic sub-parish in Teso South.
The ongoing fight against corruption has been greatly ethnicized by leaders from the Rift Valley region who have claimed that the fight is political and only aimed at scuffling Deputy President William Ruto’s Presidential ambitions.
The man at the center of it all, William Ruto has also joined the Kalenjin leaders in Protesting the arrests.
Speaking in Keiyo South, Uasin Gishu County, Ruto protested the arrests of senior parastatal chiefs including Joe Sang of Kenya Pipeline Company claiming the anti-corruption crusade has been politicized to settle political scores.
Kalonzo has joined called by Amani National Congress Party Leader Musalia Mudavadi who told off Deputy President William Ruto over government arrests of top officials in the war on graft.
“President Uhuru Kenyatta is not fighting government officials, he is not targeting tribes. He is after the corrupt officials, not individuals,” he said, adding Kenyans should encourage and support him.
The ANC Party Boss urged elected leaders to support the President’s approach and urged politicians to keep politics out of crime.
He dismissed as mischievous claims by some Rift Valley politicians who warned that the Kalenjin managers in government jobs were being targeted and branded corrupt.
Mudavadi told clerics and worshippers to pray for the government, saying it was facing a lot of challenges while fighting graft which has derailed the development agenda.
He was speaking at PCEA church’s 120 years anniversary celebration’s at PCEA Thogoto Teachers College grounds in Kikuyu constituency.
The Kalenjin community has of late made headlines for all the wrong reasons with CEO’s from the community being implicated in multi-million corruption scandals
From KPLC MD Ken Tarus to NCPB CEO Newton Terer, and now Joe sang of KPC, members of the Kalenjin Community have protested an alleged onslaught of their people.
Is the war on corruption being jeopardized by tribal notions?