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Stop corruption blame game, President Uhuru Kenyatta told by Musalia Mudavadi.
President Uhuru Kenyatta while addressing the Governance and Accountability Summit at State House yesterday appeared to be helpless, lamenting and passing the buck about being let down by the anti-corruption agencies.
He exonerated himself from spiralling corruption, saying he had given his all to help the agencies tackle corruption, yet nothing was moving.
The President even suggested he was misled in firing Cabinet Secretaries and PSs on the EACC list two years ago because the agency has yet to provide incriminating evidence against them.
According to Mudavadi, that is simply not good enough.
” His demeanour was that of throwing in the towel by washing his hands of the war on corruption, which amounts to the Executive surrendering to the corruption cartels,” he accused.
He further accused the President of trying to play the sympathy card.
” The insinuation that he is powerless against corruption because of constitutional limitations is extremely alarming. In complaining that he doesn’t have the legal or constitutional wherewithal to appoint judges, is he intimating that had he such powers he would determine who should be jailed and who should not? Isn’t this nostalgia a yearning for the authoritarian presidency of the past?,” he continued.
Corruption has been identified by Kenyans as the biggest issue facing the Jubilee government in their tenure in office since 2013.
