Political strategist Arnold Maliba now says that the ongoing debate on conflict of interest within the public sector can be traced back to the person who raised the issue.
President Uhuru Kenyatta on Thursday kicked off a storm by accusing elected public officers of doubling up as practising professionals, which he said amounts to a conflict of interest.
But Maliba, also a columnist, says that Uhuru is personally heading a government characterized by many such cases, and the government would be a crime scene if such were to be pursued.
"If we were to deal with conflict of interest as a crime then the whole of Jubilee government will be a crime scene," he said in an interview on K24 on Monday morning.
Uhuru on Thursday directed Attorney General Paul Kariuki Kihara to come up with a law to limit Kenyans to one job at a time; to either serve the public or remain in the private sector
On the extension of the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) taskforce tenure, he tended the move by Uhuru commendable.
He suggested that with its time in office prolonged, the 14-member team can now explain the content of the BBI report to Kenyans.
"There is a need for the extension of the BBI taskforce, they need to tell us what specific areas said," he added.