Exactly a month after Sports Cabinet Secretary Rashid Echesa was unceremoniously sacked by President Uhuru Kenyatta, he now claims several of his friends and Western Kenya leaders have abandoned him.
Echesa was sacked by President Uhuru Kenyatta on March 1 and replaced by Amina Mohammed.
Echesa also says President Kenyatta has never bothered to explain why he fired him.
The former Cabinet Secretary made these claims while addressing mourners during the burial of former acting managing Director of Nzoia Sugar Micheal Kulundu.
“I have a family, I have a following of people and friends asking questions which I can’t answer. People are asking what I did to Uhuru. Even my own children are asking me why I was fired,” said Echesa.
And perhaps after growing disgruntled by the lack of explanation, Echesa has accused President Kenyatta of plotting to ‘kill’ the sugar sector.
He said the bilateral agreement between President Kenyatta and his Ugandan counterpart Yoweri Museveni allowed Uganda to export milk and eggs to Kenya and increasing the annual sugar import quota from Uganda was bound to hurt the agricultural sector in Western Kenya.
Echesa also said the President wants to gain monopoly of the dairy industry after the recent round of bilateral talks with Uganda’s Yoweri Museveni.
He said that the bilateral agreement between Uhuru and Museveni, allowing Uganda to export milk and eggs to Kenya and increasing the annual sugar import quota from Uganda was bound to hurt the agricultural sector in Western.
Brookside is associated with the Kenyatta family.
The ex-CS speaking on Sunday said that the planned privatisation of the state-owned sugar companies was a ploy by the government to destroy the sugar sector.
“They want to sell the companies just like they did with Pan-Paper which was sold to Rai who has since converted it into go-downs to store his sugar. Uhuru lied to Museveni when he asked him about the Pan-Paper mill, that it was being revived when he knows very well that he sold it to his friend,” he said.