Graft questions hang over 10 ministers in wake of scandals

• PNU and ODM try to outdo each other in revealing cases of financial impropriety

Specifically, he mentioned ministries that were affected by the maize, education funds and cemetery land scandals to step aside. Mr Ogonda also named the Water ministry as one of those where corruption had been reported.

It is wrong, he said, for politicians to scramble for lucrative ministries with the intention of enjoying the privileges, only for them to fail to take responsibility for their failures.

“If you accept the job as a minister, then take its responsibility for their actions in both good and bad times,” he said.

“Ministers must carry their crosses when things go wrong by quitting their offices to allow for investigations.”

Kenya National Human Rights Commission vice-chairman Hassan Omar Hassan said all ministers whose dockets had recorded impropriety must quit immediately.

He criticised the current practice in which ministers insist on keeping their positions when, in the public domain, crimes have been committed.

“It will be good to have all the affected ministers quit office so we have a chance to establish the truth into the stinking claims of corruption,” he said.