Former Gichugu MP and Narc-Kenya Leader Martha Karua in an interview admitted to being the reason behind DP William Ruto’s firing in 2011.
Karua noted that this was after the then Agriculture Minister had been charged in a court of law for allegedly defrauding the Kenya Pipeline Company of over Ksh100 million.
She stated that she was the one who called for Ruto’s sacking in the national assembly due to the fraud case.
“Despite the case not succeeding in court, I remember asking a question in parliament as a backbencher to get the coalition government to sack him as a minister and they did,” Karua emphatically stated.
Karua further revealed that the case was dropped, not on merit but, because the main witnesses failed to show up to testify.
She also claimed that one of the witnesses had been allegedly bribed by being given a managerial position in a parastatal under Ruto’s agriculture ministry.
The former Justice Minister had earlier resigned from the coalition government as she claimed that she felt like a misfit in Mwai Kibaki’s cabinet.
In the same interview, Karua alleged that the DP’s security officials were heavily involved in her being rigged out of the Kirinyaga Gubernatorial position.
She was then asked to pick a leader to vote for if she had an option of Raila Odinga and William Ruto.
“Without even thinking about it I would pick Raila Odinga,” the former presidential aspirant concluded.
