Rarieda Member of Parliament Otiende Amollo offered what he referred to as the only way for Deputy President William Ruto in the Ksh40 billion scandal that implicated officials in his office.
Speaking on AM Live NTV on Tuesday, February 18, the vocal legislator opined that DP Ruto and his aides had handled the matter in a way that painted the office in negative light.
"I think that those who seek to defend the DP, including his own officers, have not done him justice. I think that they have been at best ambivalent and at worst, they have engaged in what I can call constructive admission of impropriety," he stated.
Otiende insisted that if the DP was to be helped, those around him had to admit Ruto's office complex was used before concentrating on how they planned to solve the issues at hand.
"Agree that the office was accessed and how these people accessed such a high. Explain what additional measures have been taken to ensure such abuse and desecration of the DP's office is properly dealt with, rather than blame everyone else. It does not help," he concluded.
Otiende added that there had been a lot of inconsistencies surrounding the military equipment fraud case, given the conflicting information coming from the DP's office and from his aides.
He insisted that at the start of the scandal, the people around DP Ruto first denied the suspects' visit to the Harambee Annex office, only to admit later that they had indeed been there.
He added that after new information emerged about the scandal, the DP's aides insisted that he was not scheduled to be in the Harambe Annex office on the day and thus did not meet the suspects as alleged in the media.
The Rarieda MP further indicated that the DP's decision to tweet that the investigators should turn their attention to the Department of Defence (DoD) instead of concentrating on his office complex only was enough admission that Harambee House Annex was used.
Amollo further added that people close to the DP, including majority leaders from both the National Assembly and Senate were still looking for scapegoats, instead of concentrating on helping Ruto get out of the Ksh40 billion mess.
"You find people like Senator Murkomen who instead of concentrating on the matter, they are asking why Raila never recorded a statement on the gold scandal.
"Others like Duale are saying that it is not just that office but many others that are used for such kind of things. Those are not helpful things," he stated.
