Cabinet Secretary Raphael Tuju, on Tuesday, October 9, declined to answer Citizen TV anchor Hussein Mohamed's question about Senator Kipchumba Murkomen during a live interview.
This was after the Senate Majority Leader commented on the show stating, "The bedroom is smoky, long live the hustlers!"
The statement's meaning was, however, not clear and so the anchor asked the Jubilee Party secretary general to try and explain what Murkomen meant.
Tuju was also not in a position to answer Mohamed so he directed him to the senator himself.
"Is that Senator Murkomen? He is the best person to be asked that question. I mean, he is a whole senator," Tuju curtly answered, to which Hussein responded that he did not expect an answer.
During the interview, the CS was also pressed about a recording that in which he gave his opinion on the rebuilding of Kiambaa Church, where many people were killed in a massacre during the 2007/2008 post-election violence.
In the recording, the voice purported to be that of the CS was heard advising former Limuru MP George Nyanja on how to go about rebuilding the church.
During the interview, Tuju addressed the issue for the first time, claiming that some people used voice enhancers to edit the conversation and put it out of context but nevertheless, he didn't shy away from addressing the Kiambaa issue.
He further disclosed that during the post-election chaos, distressed people took refuge in his home where two lost lives in a fatal shooting.
"When you follow me in my bathroom, my private space and you record what you may have heard me speak in private and you go and manipulate it, I have no reason to respond to that.
"If you want to talk about the substance of Kiambaa Church, then that is something I am ready to talk about and I am very sensitive about it because... I was personally involved. Two people were shot in my home," he explained.
Tuju serves as a cabinet secretary without portfolio in President Uhuru Kenyatta's government.
