Presidential candidate Cliff Mboya has termed his recent arrest by police as political witch hunt meant to intimidate him from contesting in the 2017 general elections.
Cliff Odolo Mboya was arrested on Friday and kept at Kileleshwa Police Station over the weekend following what authorities say is a suspicious transaction with his Housing Finance Bank account.
Mboya allegedly received a Sh5 million deposit into his bank account in January this year and it has come back to haunt him 11 months later.
However, he says that the arrest is political witch hunt aimed at stopping him from pursuing his presidential ambitions.
“Why now? It is only two weeks ago when I declared my interest to vie for the presidency of Kenya. Is this part of a big conspiracy to stop me from exercising my birthright to vie for the presidency of Kenya?” he quipped.
“I am a businessman and during the time the money came to my account, I was expecting Sh10 million from Mr John Abei from South Sudan who wanted me to invest the money from him,” he says in a letter addressed to the bank.
Mboya will be arraigned today at the Milimani Law Courts in Nairobi.