The National Alliance (TNA) party secretary general Onyango Oloo has refuted claims that he is engineering the removal of some members of the Luo community from government jobs.
Oloo said the accusations are baseless and meant to tarnish his name stressing that he has no authority to sack anyone.
This comes in the wake of a recommendation to have nominated Senator Joy Gwendo expelled from the party and the suspension of Lake Basin Development Authority managing director Peter Kabok.
Oloo who is also the chairman of the authority says it is the board that suspended Kabok and that it was not his sole decision to have him sent on compulsory leave.
“I don’t have authority to fire someone from their place of work, as a chairman of a board I work with other board members to make recommendations,” he said.
He said the board found out that he was allegedly involved in misappropriation of funds and recommended his suspension to the environment cabinet secretary.
Speaking to the press in Kisumu on Sunday at Sunset Hotel, Oloo said people from the region would replace people from the Luo community who lose their jobs.
He says people engaging in corruption will not be spared in the fight regardless of their community.
“Nobody is being targeted, even if he or she was a Kalenjin or a Maasai, they will not be spared. You cannot steal and if found run to your community,” he said.