The Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) has vowed to punish its members sympathizing with senior government officials under investigation over corruption.
Speaking to journalists, ODM chairman John Mbadi stated that the party was fully behind the ongoing war against corrupt government officials.
Mbadi stated: “Any member of the opposition who is going to 'ethnicise' or 'tribalise' the war against corruption will be removed from parliamentary committees.”
The lawmaker added: “Now that he (President Kenyatta) is using them [state agencies] to fight the vice, we should all support him because we would be naive to begin fighting him.”
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The National Assembly Minority leader stated that the Majority leader Aden Duale was also expected to crack the whip on Jubilee MPs who sympathise with government officials implicated in corruption scandals.
“Some few individuals in the country cannot enrich themselves at the expense of wananchi and then state that the war against corruption is a witch-hunt,” the ODM Chairman stated.
He further urged politicians who alleged that the ongoing war on corruption was a witch-hunt to provide evidence supporting their claims.
Mbadi's sentiments come barely hours after reports revealed that a silent but vicious war had erupted in Jubilee following President Uhuru Kenyatta’s purge on graft with allies of his deputy, William Ruto, feeling that they are being targeted unfairly.
Nandi senator Kiprotich Cherargei, a close ally of the deputy president who chairs the Senate’s Justice and Legal Affairs Committee, stated that the war on corruption should be done in good faith and not based on succession politics.
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The anti-corruption campaign has seen the Directorate of Criminal Investigation (DCI) raid homes of former Kenya Pipeline officials with investigations launched into irregular supplies of maize at the cereals board.
