Before 2022 elections, jubilee party will be ‘torn apart’ by the people who helped create and nurture it.
A section of Mt Kenya lawmakers has taken a swipe at their colleagues in Rift Valley following persistent criticisms on President Uhuru Kenyatta and Director of Criminal Investigations (DCI) George Kinoti as rift within Jubilee Party widens.
MPs Rahim Dawood (Imenti North), Muturi Kigano (Kangema) and Maina Kamanda (nominated), accused their colleagues in Deputy President William Ruto’s backyard of politicising the fight against corruption.
Mr Kamanda also said Jubilee Party’s future is bleak, and that Mt Kenya region may form a political coalition with another community if Rift Valley group pulls out of ruling coalition.
The MPs told off the Rift Valley group that is seemingly led by Senate Majority Leader Kipchumba Murkomen and Kapseret MP Oscar Sudi for attacking Mr Kinoti and President Kenyatta.
According to Mr Kigano, the lawmakers opposed to the anti-corruption purge want to blackmail the President as he dismissed allegations that Dr Ruto is being sidelined in the government.
The MPs said the Elgeyo Marakwet senator should stay silent and allow Mr Kinoti and the Director of Pubic Prosecution (DPP) Noordin Haji execute their mandate to investigate corruption allegations on the tendering of two mega dams in his county.
“It is questionable what they are fearing in the DCI’s move to investigate the Sh21 billion Kimwarer and Arror dams as well as other corruption scandals. The DCI and DPP should be allowed to exercise their independence,” said Mr Dawood.
Recently, Mr Murkomen and Mr Sudi with a host of other Rift Valley MPs said Mr Kinoti was being dragged into the 2022 political wars and that the senior detective was scandalising construction of the two dams.
According to Senator Murkomen, the uproar over the construction of the twin projects in his county was a ploy to derail the implementation and have them gifted to another region.