Governors suspected to be using public resources to hover around the country to push for the ‘pesa mashinani’ referendum have been told to do so at their own risk.
Gatundu South MP, and Jubilee stalwart Moses Kuria, has put the governors on notice saying that he has already written to the controller of budget Agnes Odhiambo to freeze their county’s accounts if found to be misusing public funds.
“As a member of the budget committee in parliament, I am warning the governors spending public resources to collect signatures for a referendum to stop doing so,” Kuria said during the opening of AIC Gathiriga in Gatundu yesterday.
Deputy President William Ruto who attended the event dismissed the ‘pesa mashinani’ referendum call as a plot by some governors to evade accountability. He dared those from the Jubilee Coalition pushing for the same to surrender their positions.
The chairman of the Council of Governors, Isaac Ruto, has been in the spotlight for being vocal in the ‘pesa mashinani’ referendum push. The Bomet governor has been accused of not being able to account for millions of shillings allocated allegedly misappropriated in his county.
He is under pressure from the senate and the Jubilee coalition to account for the funds.