Former Kiambu governor William Kabogo has faulted claims by a section of politicians from the Rift valley that the ongoing fight against corruption is targeting professionals from the Kalenjin community.
In a tweet on Sunday, Kabogo said one's tribe should not be dragged into the graft fight.
"Tribes are not thieves. They stole as individuals. That’s what they chose and as you know choices have consequences. Gal 6:7 “be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man Sows, that shall he also reap," tweeted Kabogo.
The tweet comes at a time there is a storm in the Rift Valley over a high number of Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) and Managing Directors (MDs) from the Kalenjin community facing corruption-related charges.
A list that has been doing rounds on social media indicate that at least 10 parastatal heads from the community are being investigated for graft.
Some legislators allied to Deputy President William Ruto have termed recent fight against corruption as targeting the community in a bid to scuttle DP's 2022 ambitions.
“No one should take advantage of the fight against corruption to pursue persecution of an ethnic community. What we are seeing is the ethnic profiling and persecution of people whose careers are being destroyed simply because their surnames have betrayed them in this 2022 succession politics," Nandi Senator Samson Cherargei was quoted by Sunday Nation.