Few days after Senate Public Accounts and Investment Committee implicated Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang'i over Sh1.5 billion controversial Ruaraka land, a section of Nyamira MPs have come out guns blazing.
With the committee's report set to be debated for adoption on Tuesday, all indications are that Matiang'i would find himself under investigations by the DPP and DCI over the fraud.
But a team of MPs led by North Mugirango legislator Joash Nyamoko and Nakuru West's Samuel Arama, have now read malice in the latest development at the Senate.
The MPs accused the Senate leadership of failing to investigate the alleged soliciting of bribes by the Moses Kajwang committee.
“The committee was accused of soliciting Sh100 million bribe from the embattled owner of the disputed land Francis Mburu, but Deputy Speaker Kindiki Kithure assumed the case on a technicality,” Nyamoko said.
Conflicting reportsThe leaders also pointed out the conflicting reports by the two legislative bodies as a lead into understanding the level of witchhunt the Senate was reportedly propagating.
“The Parliamentary Departmental Committee on Land exonerated the CS and Ministry of Education against any wrong doing and this report by Senate reveals some form of witchhunt,” Nakuru West MP Samuel Arama said.
The report also wants top National Land Commission (NLC) officials probed for their role that led to the payment of the taxpayers’ money.
Matiang'i is widely popular in Nyamira County and is credited for radical surgery in various ministries he has served among them education and ICT and now in Interior Ministry.
Sources close to his political maneuvers intimate that he's warming up to succeed Governor John Nyagarama who retires in 2022.
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