The Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) argues that corruption touching on any CS or principal secretary is a government responsibility that Deputy President William Ruto cannot hide from.
Speaking on Sunday, ODM National Treasurer Timothy Bosire said President Uhuru Kenyatta and his deputy could not hide from the corruption ravaging the country.
Bosire dismissed Ruto for telling former Devolution Cabinet Secretary Anne Waiguru to carry her own cross in the Sh791 million National Youth Service (NYS) scandal.
He said, “Cabinet operates under the principle of collective responsibility. The move to withdraw money from the Treasury was a result of a resolution made by the Cabinet chaired by the President and his deputy. The buck stops with the two leaders.”
On Sunday, the DP said the former CS was “cat-walking and talking kizungu mingi (a lot of English) in the face of the most audacious theft of public funds, staged by a “hairdresser” who is reported to have carried loads of cash in sacks.
“When a hairdresser registers 20 companies in a day and paid close to a billion, which she said she carried in sacks, then someone is cat-walking and talking a lot of English ... Give me a break!” Ruto said.
Ruto was linking Waiguru to Josephine Kabura who is the key suspect in the Sh1.8 billion theft of NYS funds. He said the theft was indefensible.
Bosire said the DP’s statement was a clear manifestation of corruption in the Jubilee administration.
Last week when Waiguru appeared before the PAC, she painted Ruto’s aide Farouk Kibet and Elgeyo-Marakwet Senator Kipchumba Murkomen as having benefited from the shady deals at the NYS.
She said Ben Gethi, another suspect being investigated over the scandal, were in constant communication with Kibet whom Gethi gave a million shillings.