After months of silence, Former Devolution and Planning Cabinet Secretary Anne Waiguru has finally spoken about her lavish Kitisuru mansion allegedly costing between Sh100 Million to Sh150 Million, that got many Kenyans talking.
In her opinion piece to the Daily Nation on Friday Waiguru dismissed the price tagged for her house stating that: "With regard to the defamatory insinuation that I bought my house with cash from the proceedings of corruption, had Dr Ndii bothered to make some basic preliminary inquiries, other than relying on rumour mongering, he would have established that the house didn't cost anything near what they have been spreading out there and that is mostly financed by a government mortgage at an interest of 5pc for the next 15 years."
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The former CS was responding to a column by David Ndii on the same paper, 'What Magufuli presidency means for Uhuru’s reign', where he criticised Waiguru saying: "He (President Uhuru Kenyatta) is surrounded by instant millionaires. His fallen Devolution CS Anne Waiguru evidently bought an outlandish house in a development associated with one of his close associates, what other lifestyle audit did he need? "
Waiguru bashed Ndii for not presenting facts in his column citing that: "It should also be mentioned that it is a tad disappointing for a PhD holder (from Oxford no less) to make outlandish statements without crosschecking his facts.
Last year, Waiguru was on the spot over corruption cases at the National Youth Service(NYS) and the Devolution and Planning ministry involving millions of shillings.
Pressure for her resignation piled up on the embattled CS until she finally succumbed and left the public office.
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