The arrest of Top individuals implicated in the 21 Billion Arror and Kimwarer Dam Scandal is now escalating into a tribal tag of war.
Most people have taken to different social media platforms from Monday after Director of Public Prosecution issued the arrest order of 28 individuals led by Treasury CS Henry Rotich and Permanent Secretary Kamau Thugge.
#BREAKING: Treasury CS Henry Rotich and other top gov't officials set to be arrested over Arror and Kimwarer dams scandal, DPP Haji says. pic.twitter.com/3M9eDqg4uq
— Citizen TV Kenya (@citizentvkenya) July 22, 2019
Kalenjin leaders led by Elgeyo Marakwet Senator Kipchumba Murkomen have accused the DPP of playing PR Stunts in the Dam Scandal.
Kipchumba Murkomen: I can see the deliberate injustice that is being meted on the people of Elgeyo Marakwet County by killing these projects just to satisfy short term political interests pic.twitter.com/pCM750yMLg
— Citizen TV Kenya (@citizentvkenya) July 22, 2019
Kapseret MP Oscar Sudi followed suit and dragged President Uhuru Kenyatta accusing him of engineering the whole arrest thing of Rift Valley Leaders led by CS Henry Rotich.
But some people are now wondering why the Kikuyu Community are not defending embattled Treasury PS Kamau Thugge. From the look of things, Kikuyus are not ready to defend “Mtu Wetu.”
One Twitter user by the name Martin Mungai has stated that Thugge should brace to carry his own cross. He is not ready to be dragged into his fraud case. In other words “apambane na hali yake.”
Kalenjin politicians are complaining for the arrest of "mtu wao", For us Kikuyus let PS Thugge carry his own cross he didn't steal for us. #ArrorandKimwarer
— martin mungai (@martinm81864408) July 23, 2019
Another Twitter user by the name Muturi Gacanja has called the tribal exchange as nonsense. This exchange gave rise to the debate which was going on sometime back after revelation that Kikuyu dominate most positions in KRA list of employment.
“This is just nonsense..All these are Kikuyus.I am Kikuyu too.How does it help me that they have been appointed? Muturi asked.
This is just nonsense..All these are Kikuyus.I am Kikuyu https://t.co/p1XANlMcxO does it help me that they have been appointed???
— muturi_gacanja (@Wa_gacanja) July 23, 2019
However, one wise one by the name Cyrus kipkirui has asked both the Kalenjins and Kikuyus to stop ethnic profiling.
“I am a kalenjin, my name is not in 28 people mentioned on Arror and Kimwarer scandals stop ethnic profiling, it’s only a few kalenjins and Kikuyus who are involved,” Kipkirui stated.
I am a kalenjin, my name is not in 28 people mentioned on #ArrorandKimwarer scandals stop ethnic profiling, it's only a few kalenjins and Kikuyus who are involved
— Cyrus kipkirui (@CyrusKips) July 23, 2019