Government spokesperson Eric Kiraithe has termed Mombasa Governor Hassan Joho as “a political conman full of retrogressive thinking.”
Speaking in Mombasa on Thursday, Kiraithe accused Joho of attacking President Uhuru Kenyatta over the launch of different development projects at the Coast, for his own political gain as the August general election draws closer.
Kiraithe argued that the vision 2030 would have remained a dream were it not for the Jubilee administration.
The spokesman said it unacceptable for a governor to initiate a project in order to tell the people that it is his.
“I pity citizens of a county whose governor would come and introduce a new project in the name of ‘my’ project,” said Kiraithe, as quoted by The Star.
Kiraithe dismissed Joho's claims of Uhuru taking credit for projects initiated by past regimes, saying State projects being implemented in the country were started after independence, with successive administrations seeing them through.
“On election day, they (electorate) should be keen to single out people who have their own political survival in mind when they distribute public resources,” said Kiraithe.
“The idea that a leader or government should start a project for attribution (to themselves) is myopic, unfortunate and reduces the exercise of state authority to a personal whim,” he added, as quoted by the daily.