The resignation and arrest of immediate former Kenya Pipeline company managing director Joe Sang have continued to elicit mixed reactions from Kenyans and the Rift Valley region.
Politicians from the region led by Nandi Senator Samson Cherargei, Aldai MP Cornelius Serem and his Belgut counterpart Nelson Koech have expressed their dissatisfactions on how the war against corruption seems to be targeting the managers and Chief Executive Officers perceived to be allied to Deputy President William Ruto.
Joe Sang joins the list of almost ten former managing directors who are being grilled by the Director of Criminal Investigation (DCI) and Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) over graft allegations under their management.
Some Rift Valley leaders and residents have termed the recent incidents as ‘polite’ attack on DP Ruto and that these are all about succession politics.
Speaking at Lelboinet primary school in Keiyo South, Elgeyo Marakwet county on Friday, DP Ruto rubbished the claims and urged those who are politicizing the issue to leave the EACC to perform its functions.
"The fight against corruption should not be politicised. Let us not politicise matters to do with independent institutions of prosecutions and investigations. They must operate independently without instructions from anybody, without serving any partisan interests because that is how we are going to succeed,” said the DP.