Murang'a Senator, Joe Nyutu, has dismissed claims that Kiharu Member of Parliament, Ndindi Nyoro, is President William Ruto's project in the Mount Kenya region, pointing out that the lawmaker is in the bad books of the President.
Speaking during an interview with TV47 on Wednesday, March 19, the senator said that the relationship between Nyoro and Ruto took a nosedive last year after Nyoro failed to support the impeachment of former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua. According to Nyutu, the President will not pardon Nyoro for this.
"William Ruto will never forgive anyone who either voted No to the impeachment against Rigathi Gachagua or abstained, which was what Ndindi Nyoro did. So there is no other beef, the cardinal sin that Nyoro committed was refusing to be used by Ruto to impeach Gachagua," he said.
The senator branded Nyoro as an individual who is independent, smart, and principled and cannot compromise his political future or his allegiance to the people of the Mount Kenya Region, to appease anyone, not even the president.
"He is a very principled person and I do not want to think that he is somebody's project because it would then be against the character of Ndindi Nyoro, I know him and he is my friend," he said.
"Ndindi Nyoro cannot be President Ruto's project, and if he allows himself to be used by Ruto, I will be shocked, because that isn't in his character the way know him and I don't think he is in the good books of the President otherwise they would be talking, the way they used to," he stated.
This comes a day after the MP claimed that he has not had any kind of conversation with the president for more than five months.
Addressing his recent dismissal as the Chairperson of the Budget and Appropriations Committee in the National Assembly, the MP claimed that he does not know why he was removed from the committee role.
According to the legislator, despite being replaced a week ago, he never received any explanation from the coalition leaders stating why they decided to remove him.
Nyoro went on to disclose that he learned of his dismissal as the Committee Chairperson from the newspaper and that no individual called to enquire why he had been removed from the lucrative parliamentary position.
“I do not know why I was replaced, I am saying it in good faith, I came to set the record straight. No one in the leadership of our coalition has ever called me in regards to the position,” Nyoro revealed.
"I was holding this position knowing that I was serving Kenyans, so I am answerable, I read in newspapers about my removal the same way you did and that is the truth," he added.
