Amani National Congress party leader Musalia Mudavadi on Sunday said the arrests of government officials over corruption is not ethnically based.
Mudavadi who was addressing the media after a church service in Nakuru also urged Kenyans to help President Uhuru Kenyatta in fighting corruption.
"And when the wheels of justice catch up with you then you have to speak for yourself and try and explain what you did or did not do, but for heavens' sake, this cannot be turned into ethnic. This is purely bad people who have misused their positions of authority and they are costing the Kenyan taxpayer a lot of resources. So Uhuru must just continue to intensify his fight against corruption and we as Kenyans must help him," he stated in a report by the KTN News.
The former Vice President further stated that politicians should not make the matter tribal as it involves specific individuals in the government and not the tribe.
"Standing firm and telling the politicians who want to make it tribal that sorry, that is not true, the tribe never engaged in theft it is individuals who were engaging in malpractices," Mudavadi noted.
Early this week, the immediate former National Treasury Cabinet Secretary Henry Rotich was arrested and charged with corruption.
Kiambu governor was also arrested on Sunday after he surrendered to the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission offices in Nairobi in yet again another corruption case.