National Assembly Majority Whip Benjamin Washiali has accused unnamed State House mandarins of allegedly plotting to silence DP William Ruto before 2022 polls.
According to the Mumias East MP, there is ongoing deliberate attempts to smear DP William Ruto as a corrupt individual through intimidating his close allies.
On Saturday at Mumias, Washiali said the arrest and charging of Treasury CS Henry Rotich and PS Kamau Thugge over Kimwarer and Arror dams scandal was one of secret deals to frustrate the DP.
“Those seen to be front runners in our elective politics are usually targeted by political nemesis through deliberate smear campaigns like in the case of Ruto,” Washiali told constituents at Eshisenye Girls Secondary School.
“In 2013, ANC leader Musalia Mudavadi’s name was dragged into both Goldenberg and cemetery scandals in a deliberate move to clip his wings. Today Mudavadi has become an angel and the focus has shifted to DP Ruto.”
He said that attempts to make Ruto look bad in the eyes of Kenyans have been on cards for several years now. He said such attempts will backfire.
“They decided to implicate him (Ruto) in the Kimwarer and Arror dams scandal because for a long time, they had attempted to make him look bad in the eyes of Kenyans,” Washiali said.
The MP, a close ally of Ruto, took issue with the Judiciary over numerous corruption cases dragging in court at the expense of billions of taxpayers’ money lost in mega scandals.
“Leave alone the fresh dam scandals, those arrested and charged with corruption cases earlier have their cases still pending in court."