Belgut MP Nelson Koech has mocked ODM leader Raila Odinga's remarks that Deputy President William Ruto should resign in order to pave way for investigations over graft.
In a Facebook post on Saturday, Koech shared Standard newspaper's headline: "Ruto must go, declares Raila" noting that royalties felt uneasy that the deputy president was making his way towards being one of the wealthiest leaders in the country.
However, the lawmaker argued that the DP's wealth is almost ten per cent of what the eminent veteran politicians in the country had accumulated and that their fears were unfounded.
"The royalties are unsettled that a stranger has made way into their territory; which is not the case anyway because the DP is hardly a tenth of what they have amassed," read part of the post.
The legislator who is a close ally of the DP asserted that the 'royalties' were bothered with how the former Eldoret North MP was utilising his money but caring less about how their own expenditure.
"They are concerned on how the son of a peasant is spending his little while the son of the peasant cares less on how the royalties are spending theirs," he added.
Further, he claimed that people's perception on money belonging to the elite politicians was that it should only be spent by them but the DP had decided to spend with the less fortunate.
In a Citizen TV Live interview on Friday evening, former prime minister Raila Odinga called on politicians donating huge sums of money to churches to step aside in order to be probed over corruption allegations.
DP Ruto has been presiding over church fundraisers where he has been donating cash amounting to millions sometimes.