Nominated Senator Gloria Orwoba, on Tuesday, clashed with a section of Members of Parliament affiliated to the Azimio la Umoja coalition over claims that President William Ruto played a role in the controversial arrest of the Controller of Budget Margaret Nyakango.
The vocal legislator rubbished the allegations that Ruto was involved in the witchhunt and pointed fingers at his allies instead.
“Whatever is happening is not any doing of the president and if you have noticed any time something is being cooked by those people who think they have powers around our party leader, they always wait for him to leave the country. We have seen it,” Orwoba noted.
“I am a Kenya Kwanza nominated senator, especially elected by my party under my party leader, His Excellency William Ruto, and I want to speak authoritatively today. I have told my colleagues here, and I will continue to say it to the Gusii Community.”
In particular, Kitutu Chache MP Antoney Kibagendi lashed out at the Senator following her controversial remarks defending the head of state, maintaining that President Ruto instigated the arrests.
"You cannot defend the President. The President is involved, and he has been attacking our community. He knows we cannot allow that," Kibagendi argued as the two were involved in a heated moment.
Other MPs stepped in, forcing the opposition lawmaker to walk out and leave Orwoba to continue with his presser.
However, Orwoba compelled the President to intervene following the arrest, noting that the Gusii community was being targeted by those in the precincts of power.
"The President has nothing to do with this, and as a matter of fact. I am here because I am also upset because it is a woman leader who is being removed, but the President has an interest in the Gusii community," Orwoba said.
"We urge him to come forward and stop this because our community is being targeted."
On Tuesday, police officers drawn from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) arrested Margaret Nyakango alongside ten others.
Nyakango, who was apprehended in Mombasa, was arraigned in court, where four charges were preferred against her, including conspiracy to defraud, operating a Sacco without a permit, forgery, and uttering a false document. She pleaded not guilty to the charges and was freed on a Ksh500,000 cash bail.
Reacting to the arrest, Azimio leader, Raila Odinga, claimed that Nyakango was a victim of a politically instigated plan. The opposition leader and former Prime Minister vowed to support the Controller of Budget to earn justice.
"The arrest of Controller of Budget, Margaret Nyakang'o, did not come as a surprise to us in Azimio. It was only a matter of when, not if, she was going to be sent packing on frivolous and trumped-up charges to create room for a user-friendly holder of the office, who would support and sanitize the looting currently underway," Raila lamented on Tuesday, December 5.
