President Uhuru Kenyatta’s nominee to Kenyan embassy in Malaysia Ndegwa Muhoro had a daunting task when he appeared before Parliament for vetting on Thursday.
Members of Parliament put former Director of Criminal Investigations Ndegwa Muhoro on the spot weighing in on his track record during his eight-year-long term at the helm of the inspectorate.
54-year-old Muhoro, in his submission to the committee, stated that his net worth was only Ksh88 Million.
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MPs found the wealth valuation to be suspect and an understatement for Mr Muhoro who has held several senior positions in the police service since 1990 when he joined public service as a graduate.
Muhoro maintained that the declared value remains his exact worth even as the MPs delved further into the major hurdle ahead of picking his ambassadorial role in Malaysia.
Most of the focus is on a memorandum by city lawyer Ahmednasir Abdullah who is opposing Muhoro's appointment.
The two have a series of civil battles in court since 2016.
The court cases cited in the vetting emerged as having bred bad blood between Ahmednasir and Mr Muhoro.
The former DCI boss told the House committee that he was not bothered by the lawyer's concerns.
“To my conscious, there is no baggage at all on the issues raised against me.
“We live in a society that believes that you are innocent until proven guilty. If you allow people to just raise issues, then the country will never move. People will always have reasons to say things about you whether they are true or not.” Muhoro told the committee
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He argued that given that the lawyer had not presented his complaints before any court or the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission, the memorandum should not hold any water.
“He has just been operating on social media and this is the only time he has been able to put something together and brought it before this committee. Since 2016 when I took him to court for defamation and other matters in court, the cases have remained unresolved,” stated Muhoro.
He accused Ahmednasir of having a personal vendetta against him.
He linked the lawyer's opposition to the DCI's investigations on complaints emerging from Ahmednasir's involvement with the public as a lawyer.
Muhoro stated that a controversial parcel of land in Spring Valley where the lawyer was one of the accused person’s lawyers was part of the reasons he developed the feud behind the rejection of his nomination.
He further identified an insurance company at the center of their differences.
Muhoro informed the MPs that the lawyer was part of a plot that had intended to illegally transfer the insurance firm from its rightful owners.
More to the details, the nominee mentioned a case involving two white men where he stated that the lawyer had approached him seeking to influence the DCI's approach to the matter.
In another incident, Muhoro noted that a matter involving the lawyer in a Tatu City deal further rocked their relationship but he hopes parliament would let him off the hook.
