On Wednesday, Agriculture Cabinet Secretary Mwangi Kiunjuri explained why he didn’t attend Central Kenya development meetings at La Mada hotels where an alleged DP William Ruto assassination plot was hatched.
Speaking on Citizen TV, the CS revealed that he had been out of the country, when his colleagues met at the hotel in Nairobi, in what is claimed that they were under the invitation of Interior PS Karanja Kibicho.
“I have not been to Nairobi for quite some time. I am also reading and hearing the La Mada hotel stories like any other Kenyan, but when I go back to Nairobi, I will follow up the story,” he claimed.
Kiunjuri was speaking during the distribution of 50,000 cashew nut seedlings to farmers at Bwiti area of Lunga Lunga in Kwale county.
The CS denied any knowledge of the meetings maintaining he was concentrating on national issues.
“I am not a Cabinet Secretary for Mount Kenya region alone, that is why I cannot sit in such kind of meetings,” Kiunjuri distanced himself from the meetings.
As the probe into the assassination plot gears up, several legislators allied to the DP want the CSs mentioned in the alleged plot to resign.
Kimilili MP Didmus Barasa and his Mwala counterpart Vincent Musyoka called on the CSs to step down for undermining the DP.
“When you undermine the Deputy President, you are actually undercutting the President. If these people are undermining their boss, they have no moral authority to continue serving in the current capacities,” Musyoka stated during a press conference at Parliament Buildings on Wednesday.
Apart from Trade & Industrialization CS Peter Munya, ICT CS Joe Mucheru, his Health counterpart Sicily Kariuki, and Transport CS James Macharia have also been indicted in the alleged plot.
Here is the video courtesy of Citizen TV.
