Director of Criminal Investigations George Kinoti has been asked to review footage of La Mada Hotel where four Cabinet Secretaries are said to have made to discuss DP William Ruto's murder.
An aide to DP Ruto who did not wish to be named, adds the Standard, also wants the accused to surrender minutes of the meeting which the held in the said day.
“Let Kinoti go to the hotel and review the CCTV footage of those who attended. He should also demand to see the minutes of the meeting and ask why the meetings were being held in the basement,” an aide of the DP said.
Senate Majority Leader Kipchumba Murkomen, a close ally of the DP, posted on social media what portrayed the president as a man who was not in charge.
“We are officially on autopilot!” read one of the tweets by Murkomen, which was posted on Monday night as debate raged on the veracity of the assassination claims.
“We must change course or perish!” Murkomen responded minutes later to lawyer Ahmednasir Abdullahi, who had tweeted: “We have a national UNANIMITY that all isn’t too well in the REPUBLIC.”
Despite the mounting pressure, Trade and Industrialization CS Peter Munya on Monday maintained that the meeting at La Mada Hotel was meant to discuss development.
“There is nothing sinister or unusual for people from a particular region of this country to discuss their affairs,” the CS said, adding that the meetings were a follow-up to a retreat by the region’s leaders in Naivasha.
According to Munya, a subsequent meeting was convened in Nyeri, where the MPs presented their complaints to Uhuru.
“In that meeting, the President instructed me to coordinate and get issues from the MPs and then coordinate the side of government so that I could be able to channel those issues to the relevant ministers, PSs and heads of parastatals,” Munya explained.
The DP is yet to record a statement over the same. President Uhuru Kenyatta is said to have asked DCI to investigate the claims. He is yet to publicly speak about the issue.