Nyeri Town Member of Parliament Ngunjiri Wambugu has continued to defend the embattled Cabinet Secretaries mentioned in a plot against DP Ruto.
The firebrand lawmaker has taken the message to his Facebook account where he accused DP Ruto of bringing out the assassination issue so as to strain the working and coordination of the cabinet which in turn will be pressurized President Kenyatta to fire the Cabinet Secretaries instigated.
"He knew making this kind of allegation makes it hard for him and the 4 CSs to continue working together in Cabinet. So maybe he hopes that President Kenyatta will now fire the 4 CSs.(Maybe at the same time as he fires the others ones whose files are ready for forwarding to court on corruption charges.) "
The four CSs Peter Munya (Trade), Joseph Mucheru (ICT), James Macharia (Transport) and Sicily Kariuki (Health) hailing from Mt. Kenya region were said to have been on a meeting at La Mada hotel where they allegedly hatched plot assassinate the second in command.
However, Peter Munya (Trade) has insisted that the claims are politically instigated because there is no detailed statement of how they could have executed the claims.
"If there was such a plan, a statement detailing the plan would have been out; how he is going to be assassinated, by who… someone who has such heavy security his office is almost like a police station is going to be killed by Cabinet Secretaries who have one bodyguard each? That is just bad politics," he said as quoted by Citizen.
Ngunjiri's 'revelations' comes amid 2022 succession politics which has rocked Jubilee Party.