Deputy President William Ruto was on Saturday caught in the crossfire over the ongoing squabbles about imported sugar when he toured western region.
In his speech, Ruto appeared to be defending Treasury CS Henry Rotich and his EAC counterpart Adan Mohammed, a move that did not go down well with MPs.
“There was a problem with sugar importation and when the matter went to parliament for investigation, those who were supposed to investigate instead took selfies with the suspects.
"When they were asked to write the report they had nothing to write and instead said Rotich and Aden should be sacked,” he said.
But Navakholo MP Emmanuel Wangwe led a spirited fight back where he defended the report by Agriculture and Trade committees that had recommended actions against the two ministers, only to be rejected in parliament.
“We did not go through school but we went to school. The report is properly written and we have pointed out in the report where the contaminated sugar is,” he said.
Tongaren MP Eseli Simiyu accused the DP of not doing enough to defend farmers instead, backing sugar barons who had flooded the market.
“Some people are coming here to tell us that the sugar industry must turn around plans before the government can act yet both Mumias and Nzoia sugar companies have already submitted the strategic revival plans,” he said.
Similar outcries were registered by ANC leader Musalia Mudavadi and Emuhaya MP Omboko Milemba who accused Ruto of siding with the two ministers.
MPs were allegedly bribed Sh10,000 each to shutdown the sugar report that had implicated the two ministers.