Scores of Nakuru residents have urged defiant governors implicated in corruption purge to step aside to pave a room of investigations.
Several cabinet secretaries and principal secretaries in the Jubilee administration who were mentioned in graft allegations had stepped aside waiting for their names to be cleared.
The residents say that the move by the cabinet secretaries and principal secretaries was an indication that democracy is flourishing in the country.
Speaking today at Nakuru Town, the residents expressed concern over the stubbornness of governors to respect the president’s directive to vacate their offices.
Kenneth Karimi, a Nakuru businessman said that Kenya was a nation that is governed by a set of laws and that no one was above the law.
"Our politicians should know that they are too accountable; we didn't elect them to loot public coffers but we elected them to be custodians of public resources. We are behind the president in his effort to deal with corruption dossier,” added Karimi.
Karimi's sentiments were echoed by Pauline Karanja, a nurse at a private clinic, Nakuru Town who says that corruption is the greatest enemy of any nation.
“When any one enriches himself at the expenses of others, then the final result is that we have one billionaire versus one million paupers,” said Karanja.
She said that those governors adversely mentioned in corruption purge must step aside to facilitate neutral investigations.
“We want those implicated in graft allegations to be investigated, prosecuted if found guilty or cleared if there are no sufficient charges against them,” added Karanja.
The residents' wrath comes after Bomett governor Isaac Ruto who is also the Chairman of Council of Governors (CoG) 'scoffed' when he received the directive by president requiring governors mentioned in corruption purge to step aside.
However the implicated governors hit back by saying that the president had no constitutional and statutory powers to force them vacate their offices. They also said that they have not been furnished with a copy of the confidential report from the Ethics and Anti – Corruption Commission (EACC).