By Jacob Ngetich
More heads are expected to roll in a new wave of anti-corruption purge after President Uhuru Kenyatta received a damning dossier on the rotten elements in his administration shortly before he flew to the US. A report by the Multi-Agency Task Team (MATT) has profiled hitherto untouchable personalities in the Jubilee administration.
Already, and arising from the dossier, a wave of secret raids are being conducted on the suspects. A Wednesday night raid on an aide of a top government official is said to have been part of the new wave of the purge informed by the dossier. All government authorities privy to the Wednesday raid have remained tight-lipped on the matter which is said to have triggered shock-waves in top echelons of Jubilee administration.
“President Kenyatta is disappointed and feels betrayed by his close lieutenants, senior people are implicated in the dossier,” a source privy to the dossier’s details told the Sunday Standard.
On Friday, two separate meetings were held between the President and top security bosses at State House and Harambee House where issues relating to the anti-graft purge were thrashed. Later that night, the President left the country for US.
Ripple effects
“The president is determined to exterminate the monster of corruption and the ripple effects of the purge targeting the big fish and whales will likely determine or scuttle the 2022 succession politics,” another source said.
Through his pronouncements and those of his allies, the President appears keen to brand the war on corruption one of his defining legacies alongside Building Bridges Initiative and the Big 4 Agenda of Manufacturing, Food Security, Universal Health Care and Affordable Housing.
A number of Cabinet Secretaries have been implicated in corruption cases or have failed to tame graft under their dockets. It is understood that the president was astounded by the intelligence on the veracity of the graft cases touching on those close to him. A fortnight ago, President Kenyatta set the tone for a ruthless purge when he retreated to the Coast, shook off friends and allowed the wheel of justice grind victims. When he came back, buildings which had stood on riparian lands for ages tumbled down.
In the same week, top National Lands Commission officials were arrested and hauled before courts on graft charges. Others charged were the Kenya Bureau of Standard officials including the MD Charles Ongwae, Kenya Power top managers, Busia Governor Sospeter Ojaamong and the former Nairobi County boss Evans Kidero.
Anonymous says
You have just copied word by word.
frederick says
i support the president, and let him not spare Ruto in these
Anonymous says
Ruto ruto ,nonsense
Anonymous says
One gets the impression Uhuru has been sleeping on the job or does not have what it takes to handle the job, the power grab and the illegitimacy not withstanding.
The big four is a big joke. What for instance is food security for households with diminishing incomes or none at all. There is a huge gap between food in the marketplace and hungry mouths. What mechanisms are in place to bridge that gap, what is the baseline and who is measuring progress if any is being made. Indications are negativity all over on many fronts. The regime is a sale out.