Opposition leader Raila Odinga has dismissed reports by a section of local media that he might be a beneficiary of an impending cabinet reshuffle.
An investigation by The Standard established that President Uhuru Kenyatta could sack implicated Principal Secretaries and Cabinet Secretaries barely five months into office.
In a statement to newsroom, Odinga accused the media for alleged attempt to use his name as refuge to the corrupt.
"Raila Odinga has read with deep concern and disappointment reports appearing in the Standard on an alleged looming reshuffle as a result of ongoing corruption probe.
"He finds the reporting malicious, retrogressive and diversionary and merely meant to undermine the war against graft," he said.
Further, Odinga said, the paper wants to use his name to provide refuge to the corrupt by implying that the crackdown on graft is merely an attempt to take 'his people' to government.
On the ongoing cases, Odinga backed President Uhuru Kenyatta's measures to clean the government by kicking out those culpable.