Senate Majority Leader Kipchumba Murkomen has poured cold water on the much-publicised lifestyle audit ordered by President Uhuru Kenyatta.
Murkomen said the audit was targeted at Deputy President William Ruto as part of a wider plot to sabotage his 2022 bid for presidency.
Speaking during an exclusive interview with Citizen TV, he questioned why the focus had been solely on Ruto and not on other wealthy individuals such as former Prime Minister Raila Odinga.
"Raila is 100 times richer than the DP but nobody asks how he acquired his wealth. Just a day after the announcement was made, you the media started reporting that Ruto owns a chopper and this and that. We read witch-hunt and malice in the whole issue," he said on Sunday.
The Senator reiterated that the audit on public and State officers was in bad faith and noted it was doomed to fail since it was not anchored in the laws of the land.
"Unless we have a legally backed process, we will not go far if we target individuals in the lifestyle audit. We must call it as it is," he said.
Murkomen's remarks comes a day after another Ruto's ally, Sports Cabinet Secretary Mohammed Achesa, questioned how Raila acquired an alleged Sh1 billion home at Riat Hills in Kisumu.
"He built that house when he was Prime Minister. Let him be ready to tell Kenyans the source of those funds because we know his salary was Sh1.2 million and his mortgage was Sh40 million," the CS said on Friday.
Meanwhile, the President, his deputy, and Raila have maintained they are ready for the audit, insisting they have nothing to hide.