Raila Odinga faults President Kenyatta move on corruption
What you need to know:
- Cord leader calls President's speech a "hypocritical lamentation".
- Mr Odinga questioned why President Kenyatta remained mum on graft at the electoral commission and ministries of Devolution, and Health.
Cord leader Raila Odinga has dismissed President Uhuru Kenyatta’s directive to national and county government officials who have been implicated in corruption scandals to step aside.
Mr Odinga further faulted the President for handing over to the Senate and National Assembly Speakers the list of individuals said to be under investigations for corruption.
In a statement read on his behalf by Busia Woman Representative Florence Mutua on Friday in the county, Mr Odinga described the President’s State of the Nation address delivered in Parliament on Thursday as a “hypocritical lamentation that adds to nothing and accounts for nothing”, adding that Mr Kenyatta was not committed to fighting corruption.
“What the President did was whitewashing corruption and a move to compromise war on corruption while purporting to fight the vice,” said the Cord leader.
He accused the Ethics and Anti Corruption Commission of failing to deliver on its mandate.
“We have serious objections to a supposedly independent anti-corruption agency that secretly submits a list of alleged corruption suspects to the President,” he said.
Mr Odinga questioned why President Kenyatta remained mum on graft at the electoral commission and ministries of Devolution, and Health.
