Just a week after a company owned by the Odinga family was allegedly caught transporting falsely declared ethanol, Gatundu MP Moses Kuria has threatened to arrest the opposition leader.
Kuria says he will then hand over Raila Odinga to Inspector General of Police Joseph Boinett.
"The constitution allows citizens to arrest people who have violated the law. If Raila is too big to be arrested by Boinnet, let him give me the job. I will arrest him without any harm and take him to court," Kuria said.
On Friday, EACC officers revealed details of a two-week undercover operation that saw them camp at Spectre International as they followed trucks carrying drums of ethanol.
The ethanol had been falsely declared as a product for export to a company in Mwanza, Tanzania.
According to reports in a section of online media, Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) officers allegedly followed the trucks as they left Spectre International Ltd in Kisumu and noticed that the vehicles did not follow the Mwanza route but were diverted to Nairobi.
The trucks were later were driven to a godown in Embakasi where the ethanol would be sold to the local market.
Upon discovery, Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) and EACC officials raided the said godown and impounded truckloads of ethanol.
“We had intelligence that ethanol intended for export was being diverted into the local market to make illicit liquor. This means the culprits never paid taxes. This is because ethanol for export is exempted from taxes,” stated EACC deputy CEO Michael Mubea.
Kuria, who was speaking at Difathas in Mwea East constituency during the burial of Dennis Itumbi's aunt Lucy Wambui Njagi, said he wondered why the IG had failed to act on the matter.
He said, "This is the same ethanol that is used to prepare second generation brews that have finished our youth. The president is trying to work but somebody like Raila is abroad telling wazungu not to help the government because of Eurobond.”
Kuria accused Boinnett of being soft on Raila while at the same time saying it was ironic for the opposition leader to claim he is clean on corruption yet his company is involved in dirty business.
"If it was another person arrested with the said ethanol, that person could be rotting in cells already," said the MP.
According to the Star, Raila's spokesman Dennis Onyango said they were not aware of the claims which belong to Kuria.
“We cannot comment on such baseless rumours. We cannot and will not play such games," Onyango said.
Raila is currently in the UK for the London Political Summit.