The ongoing sugar debacle continues to intensify as an ODM Senator now claims to know the source of money that was allegedly used to bribe Members of Parliament to shoot down the report.
A list of 149 legislators who allegedly received money to reject the report by a Joint House Committee has been making rounds on social media indicating that the MPs took home between Sh10,000 and 30,000.
Some lawmakers such as Kiambu Women Representative Gathoni Wa Muchomba and her Naivasha counterpart Jayne Kihara have confirmed that money indeed exchanged hands, adding that those who refused the bribe, like themselves, were ridiculed and insulted.
"They were telling us that the money is not our mothers' and that we were too arrogant," said Wa Muchomba.
None of the MPs, however, has named the person who bribed or tried to bribe them.
But on Thursday, Homa Bay Senator Moses Kajwang' came out to 'reveal' the person behind the illegal deal.
Speaking during a show on Citizen TV, the vocal Senator claimed the government bribed the MPs to reject the report to save two Cabinet Secretaries in the middle of importation of contraband and harmful sugar.
The report had indicted Treasury CS Henry Rotich and his former Industrialisation counterpart Adan Mohamed, and it had recommended the duo be held culpable for their actions that saw the entry of harmful sugar into the market.
"Now that we know who the bribed are, who is the briber? My appeal to MPs is instead of fighting each other and everyone trying to look good, let us focus on the source of that money because it came from the executive," he asserted.
Kajwang' further accused the National Assembly of doing a shoddy job and asked the Senate to investigate the matter.
"If the Senate came into this it would broaden its scope- It would not only look at the issue of the Gazette notice, health but also privatisation of sugar mills, COMESA, incentives to sugar farmers and which way forward for sugar," he said.