Elgeyo Marakwet senator Kipchumba Murkomen has defended the Jubilee administration over claims by Cord leader Raila Odinga, that Anne Waiguru was being protected.
Murkomen said Jubilee asked the former Devolution Cabinet Secretary to resign following the Sh1.8 billion NYS scam.
He said at no point has Jubilee ever protected Waiguru.
"If the president and his deputy were protecting Waiguru they would have not sacked her," he said during an interview on a local television station.
"There are two ways you can be sacked, you can be made to resign on be sacked. Of course the appointing authority had the opportunity to sack her or she resigns. She read the signs that she was not going to last in the Devolution Ministry, she had to save her face by resigning," Murkomen added, Tuesday morning.
Murkomen also faulted Waiguru, saying she faked her sickness. He said if she was genuinely sick as she claimed when she left office, she would not have declared interest in vying for the Kirinyaga gubernatorial post in 2017.
"Anne Waiguru lied to us. Which doctor advises you to resign as a CS and run for governor,'' he wondered.