Kericho Senator Aaron Cheruiyot has reiterated that he met Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang'i at a lunch-hour meeting with Deputy President William Ruto at his Harambee Office.
Despite Matiang’i dismissing the claims, the senator has affirmed that he is telling the truth.
“Let me explain what happened. On Tuesday, a day before this report had been tabled by the CIPK committee on the issue of Ruaraka...I was among the first people to speak about it," he said on Tuesday at AMLive Show on NTV.
"And I give it my support that this particular report is a good work of a committee of parliament but in the course of the debate very serious allegations came up and I urge you and anyone who wants to know to revisit the Hansard. There were very grave allegations made about the members of the committee that one, there are certain members of the committee who had refused to sign the report. It emerged that certain members of the committee were in contact with the people who were being investigated,” he said in part.
Matiang’i and Cheruyoit clashed over the meeting on Sunday. Cheruiyot had alleged that DP Ruto summoned him about the Ruaraka land report saga in the Senate touching on Matiang’i.
The report was received from the Council of Imams and Preachers of Kenya (CIPK) in the controversial Sh1.5 billion Ruaraka land saga.
Cheruiyot claimed that he was among those who led other Jubilee senators to walk out of the sitting which created a quorum hitch, thereby saving Matiang'i from an impending ouster.
The reported recommended that Matiang’i and Education Principal Secretary Belio Kipsang to take responsibility of Sh.1.5 billion lost in the saga.
The senator also said that he is yet to understand why the CS became furious with him when he made the remarks. He further said that the claims that he had lied are baseless and ill-driven.
“I am still trying to understand what made him furious because I never insulted him, I never said anything awful about him,” he said.