Water Cabinet Secretary Eugene Wamalwa has asked opposition leader Raila Odinga to stop fighting the implementation of projects he started when he was Prime Minister.
Wamalwa accused Raila of speaking ill of every water project that the Jubilee government implements, saying it's Raila who designed and approved most of them as part of Vision 2030.
“It is unfortunate that the former PM is suffering from selective amnesia, fighting projects whose designs he paid for,” he told the Star.
The CS asked why the office of the PM under Raila's leadership paid Sh100 million for the design of the Sh38 billion Itare Dam project, yet he is now fighting it.
The Cord leader termed the project in Mau Forest, Nakuru county, a Jubilee government secret and an environmental disaster likely to render several counties downstream dry.
He claimed during a press briefing at his office in Nairobi on Friday that senior Jubilee leaders in Naivasha and Ruiru will benefit from the diversion of the water for personal projects.
But the CS defended the work saying the dam will cater for more than 8,000 people in the county whose population was sharply rising.
“It is fool hardy to call a project you initiated a secret project. If Raila was president he would still have implemented the Itare project," he said.
Wamalwa asked Raila to stop fighting the project for the sake of political gain as Kenyans lives are on the line.