The National Assembly Speaker Justin Muturi has opened up over graft allegations that were levelled against him while he served as a Magistrate in 1997.
During an interview on a TV station on Monday, February 28, Muturi revealed that his troubles began when he went to State House to celebrate victory for the Siakago Constituency by-election together with the late President Daniel Moi.
At the event, the presidential aspirant recounted that he was asked to make a request to the Head of State as a reward for helping the ruling party win the elections.
"I used to stay at a house in Upper Hill and there were my seniors who went to Moi and asked him to give them the house earlier. However, they were told that they must include me as I was the occupant. I did not know all this until the last minute when we had the Siakago constituency by-election.
"When we won the by-elections and we went to Moi for celebrations and I was asked what I would have liked to be given as a token of appreciation. Because I had not been there before, I asked to be given the house I was living in," he recounted.
He stated that he was informed that the house had already been given to him adding that an application letter for the house was shown as proof.
"That is when I was told that I had already been given the house. I was later given the application letter that was given in my name. One of them finally accepted that he signed the letter in my behalf," the speaker recounted.
Muturi added that during the investigations, some of his seniors provided evidence to show that he was present at the meetings when they made the application of the house.
The speaker of the 12th Parliament further revealed that his passport rescued him during the investigation even as the claims were found to be false.
"That case irritates me because there is nothing bad like being wrongfully accused. The case was investigated and people came up claiming that they were with me on several occasions.
"They even went ahead to bring up diaries to show the date. All that time that they had accused me that I was with them I was actually out of the country. All I did was to provide my passport. I was not even asked to defend myself because the case fell apart," get stated.
Following the Ksh1 million bribery accusations, Muturi left the Judiciary and joined politics and was elected as MP for Siakago constituency now known as Mbeere North constituency in 1999.
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