By Edwin Nyarangi and Eric Abuga for Std News
Former Prime Minister Raila Odinga yesterday opened up on the fake gold scam, claiming he was the one who outed the cons to the Dubai-based complainants.
Speaking for the first time since his name was dropped in a video clip that went viral, Raila absolved the other person mentioned in the clip — Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang’i — describing him a victim of a witch-hunt.
At the Kisii burial of Dr David Ombati, the African Special Envoy on Infrastructure Development, said he flushed out the cons himself through a meeting with the conned businessmen.
“I was the whistle-blower in the fake gold syndicate when I discovered some people were using senior government officials’ names to con businessmen,” he said.
“I told the businessmen that whoever they were told would clear their gold was not Matiang’i after I was handed over a phone after one of them said he had spoken to Matiang’i. I clearly identified the voice on the other end as being of a different person altogether,” said Raila.
Dr Ombati was Jaramogo Oginga Odinga’s doctor.
He revealed that the fake Matiang’i’s role was to clear the gold which was to leave the country through Wajir airport. He claimed he knew the real Matiang’i since the time he worked in his office when he served as a Prime Minister.
Raila also alluded that the video in which his name and Matiang’i’s were dropped might have been fake.
“Matiang’i is as white as cotton and we will not allow anybody to taint his name or the image of any hardworking government officer. Those faking video clips or voices should be ready to face the law,” said Raila without elaborating.
Impeachment threats
Before yesterday, Raila had maintained a studious silence on the matter as it turned political and threatened to implode the remaining strands of Jubilee unity.
A day after the video leaked, Deputy President William Ruto linked the scam to Raila’s political camp, claiming they had thrived in false promises before. His allies however directly attacked Matiang’i and asked him to quit.
With talk of move to impeach Matiang’i swirling in the air, and Raila as well as President Uhuru Kenyatta’s names being roped in through the video, Director of Public Prosecution Noordin Haji urged caution in the debate.
Yesterday, Raila said he will not retract his decision to support the fight against corruption, unite Kenyans and ensure economic stability.
Anonymous says
Whay intelligence! You don’t have any. Kenya don’t need your zombie falacies.
Tell it to the dogs zombies that follow all the lies you say and come up with all the time.
Since getting thr AU dished job, what project have you done for Africa to praise you for! Totally nothing to date.
We don’t need you to pitch for the demon face of the regime of the day.
Anonymous says
Nonsense
Anonymous says
Matiangi is clean but raila is corrupt hypocrite
Anonymous says
the messiah who knows everything. i thought you are supposed to be connecting africa. AU representative for gold. you are not an investigating agent or a court to decide who is clean or not. bure kabisa.
Anonymous says
RAILA CLAIMS THAT HE TOOK A ROUND TRIP, CLOSE TO SIX THOUSAND MILES, FROM KENYA TO DUBAI IN ORDER TO GO AND CALM DOWN THE UNITE ARAB EMIRATE RULERS WHO ARE LOOTING MINERAL RESOURCES FROM THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO, A COUNTRY WHERE AFRICANS ARE BEING SLAUGHTERED BY THE MILLIONS TO GRAB THE MINERALS IS MIND BOGGLING!
IN WHAT CAPACITY DID RAILA ODINGA TRAVEL TO DUBAI ?? ON WHOSE SIDE WAS RAILA ODINGA ACTING?? WAS HE ON SIDE OF THE BLACK AFRICAN CONGOLESE SIDE WHOSE RESOURCES ARE BEING LOOTED?? OR WAS RAILA ODINGA ON THE SIDE OF THE EMIRATE ROYAL FAMILY LOOTERS WHO ARE FUELING THE KILLING CONGOLESE IN ODER TO GRAB THEIR RESOURCES IN THE MIDDLE OF THE DELIBERATELY CREATED CHAOS BY THE FOREIGN ELITES???
WHY ARE RAILA ODINGA, FRED MATIANG’I AND UHURU KENYATTA ASSISTING THE LOOTERS OF CONGOLESE AFRICAN RESOURCES IN AN AREA WHERE AFRICAN ARE BEING SLAUGHTERED??
THESE ARE THE LIVES OF CONGOLESE POOR MINERS:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTEVHykWZqk
RAILA ODINGA, UHURU KENYATTA, FRED MATIANG’I, WILLIAM RUTO, PAUL KAGAME AND ANY OTHER AFRICAN RULING CARTELS, INCLUDING THE AFRICAN UNION, ARE NOT ON THESE CONGOLESE AFRICAN MINERS’ SIDE!
THEY ARE PAID TO USE THEIR POWER AND INFLUENCE DIVERT ATTENTION FROM THE ATROCITIES AGAINST BLACK AFRICANS AND TO PROTECT THE FOREIGN LOOTERS WHO HAVE SUPPLIED ARMED GROUPS WITH LETHAL WEAPONS TO GRAB ALL MINERALS FROM THESE POOR MINERS WHERE CHILD EXPLOITATION IS ALLOWED!!
AFRICAN RULING ELITES COLLABORATING WITH FOREIGN LOOTERS ARE THE BLACK AFRICANS WORST ENEMIES!! AFRICAN RULING ELITES ARE THE OVERSEERS AND THE PROTECTORS OF FOREIGN ROBBERS!
Anonymous says
Did anybody know that James Orengo is more than a double agent?Working for ODM and William Ruto simultaneously???
https://www.kenyannewsday.com/2019/04/12/revealed-orengo-receives-sh70m-from-ruto-after-ugenya-polls-defeat/
Anonymous says
THE REASON WHY ZAHEER JHANDA HAS NOT BEEN ARRESTED?? HE RECRUITS/INFORMS/BANKROLLS THE KENYA POLITICAL ELITES AND HAS UNFETTERED ACCESS TO ALL OF THEM!!
Anonymous says
clean ni wewe na watu nyenu…
Anonymous says
Ehhh…gava ya watu wa handshake na kielewele are overtaxing 3m salaried worker in kenya to build houses for 50m people…
kakai says
iyo si kazi yako baba .. ebu think unapaswa kusaidiaje wakenya walikupigia kura since 1997 but you kept failing them