Raila and Wetang’ula ask Uhuru to sack Treasury CS and PS Thugge over ‘missing’ Sh140 billion
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Opposition leader Raila Odinga and Cord co-principal Moses Wetang’ula said they will not sit back as massive looting goes on in government.
Mr Odinga said he would not “act as a secretary of CS Rotich, to go and peruse files at the Treasury”.
Cord leaders said the amount of money in question was not invisible to warrant the lack of seriousness shown by the government on the Eurobond saga.
Cord leaders on Monday asked President Kenyatta to sack Treasury Cabinet Secretary Henry Rotich and Principal Secretary Kamau Thugge over the Eurobond saga.
Opposition leader Raila Odinga and Cord co-principal Moses Wetang’ula said they will not sit back as massive looting goes on in government.
They said the “time for sideshows” employed by the Jubilee administration in an attempt to avoid accounting for Sh140 billion believed to have been lost was over.
Mr Odinga said he would not “act as a secretary of CS Rotich, to go and peruse files at the Treasury”.
“If experts have given us enough evidence that money was lost, we cannot be tossed around by requests that we go and dig files. What we want is the government to tell us where the money is or what it was used to build as they claim,” Mr Odinga said in Asumbi, Homa Bay County, during the burial of Mzee Johnson Kidero, the father of Nairobi Governor Evans Kidero.
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He went on: “We want the President to take personal responsibility on this matter.”
Mr Odinga asked President Kenyatta to borrow a leaf from Tanzanian President John Magufuli, who had shown that corruption and wastage can be dealt with if the presidency is committed to fighting the vice.
He said the amount of money in question was not invisible to warrant the lack of seriousness shown by the government on the Eurobond saga.
The Eurobond was a Sh289 billion loan floated by the government on the Irish Stock Exchange and which the Opposition claims was not spent well.
On Monday, Mr Odinga said the government had no capacity to spend Sh140 billion in one financial year unless the money translates to robust infrastructural growth.
Mr Rotich last Friday asked Mr Odinga to go to his office for details on how the money was spent, an invite that the former Prime Minister turned down.
