A day after Agriculture Cabinet Secretary Mithika Linturi’s vindication of fake fertiliser scandal, various Members of Parliament- MPs have come out to point fingers to corruption and what happened.
Speaking after Parliament cleared the Agriculture CS over the allegations, most leaders have claimed that the seven members who vindicated Linturi were compromised.
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According to Rarieda Member of Parliament Otiende Amollo, he was aware of corruption among the members who let Linturi off the hook.
“I have spoken to some of the members of the select committee and a disclosure has been made to me that questions and allegations of impropriety and misconduct by some members of the committee.”
Robert Mbui, the Kathiani MP who is also a member of the committee confirmed Otiende Amollo’s allegations and said that there was foul play in the build up to the report of vindication of the Agriculture CS.
According to Mbui, key witnesses in the probe, among them the Principal Secretary for agriculture, were not summoned to shed more light on the fake fertiliser scandal, even after being named as persons of interest.
However, according to former Mandera Senator Billow Kerrow, the executive, by extension President William Ruto influenced the outcome of Linturi’s Impeachment motion.
Billow says that the seven members allied to Kenya Kwanza Alliance who constituted the majority in the committee, gave “cues” to vote against the impeachment motion.
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“The CS went on to attend government and State House meetings. One would have expected that the decision by MPs was enough for the president to say the CS could not attend a meeting because he had a corruption case. There is political experience involved in these cases always. People take their cue from the Executive.”