President William Ruto has launched a noisy war of words to fight corruption in Kenya and he has been specifically lamenting about those who are supposed to lead the country and earn a lot of money claiming to be doing so but instead are engaging in corruption and theft of public funds in the country, namely MPs and Governors whom Ruto claims are the most corrupt.
With the entire political leadership in country operating as specialists in robbing the country dry it is no wonder Kenya is in constant crisis when it comes to development needed to move the country forward instead of fighting for survival every day for the citizens.
The MPs and governors on the other hand have accused President William Ruto of being the one running the headquarters of heavy corruption in the country.
One funny part of the ongoing petty fights is that the same MPs accusing the president of being corrupt also accuse each other of accepting bribes from President Ruto to pass bills that he wants.
Committee Accused of Pocketing Ksh10 Million Responds to Ruto
National Assembly Justice and Legal Affairs Committee (JLAC) chairperson and Tharaka MP, George Gitonga Murugara, has responded to President William Ruto’s claims that committee members received up to Ksh10 million to pass the Anti-Money Laundering and Combating of Terrorism Financing laws (Amendment) Bill, 2025.
Murugara, while speaking on the floor of the House, denied the allegations, stating that no member received the said amount or was solicited to pass the bill.
Simply put, the president accusing the MPs of being corrupt is paying them to do whatever he wants and the MPs think to get rich quicker they have to grab any public money that comes into their hands like NG-CDF billions every year.
Taking Kenyans as the biggest joke in their rich lives the MPs and the president are now pretending to fight each other about who is the bigger thief against Kenyans. They will both keep laughing at the people they are robbing knowing they will just come back to office in 2027 and continue with the robbery of public money.
If the fight to end corruption by President Ruto was even halfway serious there is a very simple thing that can and should be done right now. The president working with the Auditor General should institute a public audit of all NG-CDF money and how it has been spent to finance projects and other financial needs in every constituency in Kenya.
This is very necessary at this time when MPs are at war against any attempts to take the CDF money from their hands and control. Can Kenyans get to see directly from audit teams appointed by the Auditor General how the billions allocated for CDF every year is being used to benefit the country.
Here we have the Belgut MP who claimed that he was paying bursary for 10,000 students. Who are those students and in which schools are they where the money was sent to by the MP? The check indicates Sh. 50 million being paid to Belgut NG-CDF Bursary. Who signed for and collected that money? Who runs the NG-CDF Bursary other than the MPs?
Whoever runs the NG-CDF Bursary must provide a list of those who have received the money for their education and the schools the money was paid to for verification. MPs cannot lie to Kenyans that they just pay money to a bursary and do not know the students who get those bursaries.
How about if the same MP collects the Bursary checks and use it as their private money. Every Kenyan knows the CDF is pocket money for the MPs and they know that a very big pocket for MPs is needed when they get the money because those MP po get empty very fast and everybody knows where it goes.
In a case like this one in Belgut, the Audit team appointed by the Auditor General can work with Equity Bank to find out who cashed the check. The same should apply to other constituencies where checks are sent to NG-CDF Bursary all across the country.
Kenyans need President William Ruto working with all branches of government to launch a national audit of public money and the Auditor General will be empowered to launch that audit process and allowed to hire audit teams for now, to do that work because there is not enough staff in the audit office to do that kind of work where all results are required in four months for the sake of the country.
Often MPs claim they use most of the money to pay bursaries and never provide any data as to who got those bursaries and the list of schools where the bursary has been paid so it can be properly audited by cross checking the source of the money to where MPs claim to have sent it.
Those thousands of lists of alleged students who received bursaries from CDF are imaginary names cooked up by the MPs to cover their theft of CDF.
President Ruto has established some muti-agency task force to spearhead his war on corruption and that is a complete waste of time because only the Auditor General can audit NG-CDF as well as County Budgets to find out if public money is being stolen by the MPs and governors. What the heck is the NIS or CBK going to do to MPs and governors stealing public money.
Let Ruto launch a national public audit for every constituency and county spending and the money saved from that effort will be way over what the government needs to pay by enabling the Auditor General to hire audit teams to have the work done and completed within the next four months so by January 1, 2026 Kenyans will have all that information available to them and the prosecutions in court for theft can start as well.
At the same time the MPs will have a right to demand that as a public audit is being conducted for NG-CDF and County money, the same thing should be done with the entire budget and use of public money by President Ruto and his office and let the public know if the president is one of the thieves Kenyans have to deal with in 2027.
The nonsense of MPs asking the president to name corrupt MPs and others is a safe way for the thieving MPs and governors to keep ripping off the whole country. It is time for a complete public audit of public money to seriously deal with what has been killing our country for generations and is now exploding in our faces as a country.
Former Chief Justice Maraga Challenges Ruto on Corruption Battles
Former Chief Justice and Presidential hopeful David Maraga issued some demands of fighting corruption in Kenya and Kenyans know very well that other than him the rest of those hoping to fight for the presidency against William Ruto in 2027 are themselves deadly thieves and very corrupt individuals who have been in parliament all their lives.
The King of the opposition in Kenya today, Rigathi Gachagua who pocketed Sh. 7.3 billion theft money as soon as he took office as the DP and all the charges against him for robbing the country were dropped and that public money is now in his pocket as he seeks another chance to get more money.
Court Approves Withdrawal of Gachagua’s Sh7.3 Billion Graft Case
Posted Thu, 11/10/2022
The Anti-Corruption Court has allowed the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) to withdraw the Sh7.3 billion graft case against Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua and his co-accused.
While granting the application on Thursday, presiding magistrate Victor Wakumile warned the accused persons that the application but warned Gachagua and his co-accused that they may be re-arrested in future on the same charges.
With the sick United Opposition group led by Gachagua pretty much giving William Ruto an easy win in 2027,
Kenyans may have to rely on the likes of Justice David Maraga to provide credible challenge to President Ruto on the critical issue of corruption and Maraga made his views known to Kenyans in an open letter to the president just now.
“When President William Ruto stood before the country and accused Members of Parliament of demanding money from governors, ministers, and other state officers appearing before them, he cracked open a door that those in power usually keep firmly shut,” he stated.
“It was an extraordinary admission. But it cannot stand alone. If the President can publicly point fingers at Parliament, then he must also open himself to the same scrutiny. Kenyans will not accept a one-sided anti-corruption gospel that spares the pulpit while condemning the pews.”
I am sure many Kenyans would support the sentiments expressed quite clearly by Justice Maraga but the big question if President Ruto and the MPs accept that they are open to scrutiny then who is going to do that job for Kenyans since it cannot be the same corrupt public office holders scrutinizing themselves.
That is exactly where the office of the Auditor General and a specific national audit of MPs, governors and the office of the president that needs to be done right now as the whole country stays alert and wait for the audit reports to be made public by January 2026.
