Nakuru Governor Kinuthia Mbugua is not party to the Mungiki and any attempts to link him to the proscribed sect is an insult, deputy Governor Joseph Rutto has said.
Speaking Tuesday during a radio show, Ruto said some political detractors in the county were working round the clock to pin Governor Mbugua to the outlawed sect to gain cheap political mileage.
Ruto told Radio Citizen that the county boss was among those who dismantled several illegal criminal sects in the country during his tenure as the Administration Police Commandant and to identify him with Mungiki amounts to politic mudslinging.
There have been claims that the governor works closely with the sect to harass traders after he attended the burial of an alleged sect leader who was killed under mysterious circumstances earlier in the year.
However, Mbugua has categorically maintained that he has nothing to do with the dreaded sect.