It has emerged that some National Super Alliance (NASA) supporters in February had planned to stop paying taxes to the national government.
According to former Prime Minister Raila Odinga, some of his supporters had hinted at him that they would start remitting their taxes to the NASA government.
He said majority of them had actually removed President Uhuru Kenyatta's portrait from their business premises and mounted his.
"After my swearing in, I received information that they were ready to start paying taxes to the NASA government," Raila who spoke in Kitui on Tuesday said as quoted by local Swahili newspaper Taifa Leo.
The former PM was in Kitui opening a new hotel owned by political science lecturer and Jubilee administration's critic Prof Makau Mutua.
"They were determined to starve the national government off taxes. Uhuru was angry about the idea and he was prepared to arrest me had the plan succeeded."
Raila was sworn in as the people's president on January 30 against the government's wishes and President Uhuru Kenyatta who was in Adis Ababa then for an African Union convention ordered all media houses to give the Uhuru Park event a blackout.
Some of the NASA leaders who were arrested and charged over the swearing-in included Ruaraka MP Tom Kajwang', NASA lawyer Dr Miguna Miguna and Makadara MP George Aladwa.