In what is expected to lead to a showdown between president Uhuru Kenyatta and his deputy William Ruto, a plot to kick out five Central Kenya legislators allied to the deputy president is in the formative stages of being executed. In the scheme, the five MPs who are vocal supporters of the DP will lose their parliamentary seats, occasioning by-elections which the president as the Jubilee Party leader has vowed to lead to ensure they are vanquished politically. They are Kimani Ichung’wa (Kikuyu), Moses Kuria (Gatundu South), Alice Wahome (Kandara), Ndindi Nyoro (Kiharu) and combative Kimani Ngunjiri (Bahati). The scheme involves collecting signatures from voters to recall the five MPs, charging some in court with graft for allegedly misusing National Government Constituency Development Fund, or stealing public or private funds as well as reviving criminal cases some of them were facing.
Amos Kimunya
The execution of the proposal kicked off recently when paid demonstrators, carrying placards, denounced Ichung’wa for allegedly misusing NG-CDF money and disrespecting the president. The demonstrators who marched along Kikuyu township streets before setting ablaze an effigy of the MP at the entrance of the NGCDF offices, carried placards denouncing the MP as a thief. The organizers of the demo later addressed the press where they vowed to ensure Ichung’wa was recalled for disrespecting the president and stealing NG-CDF money. They claimed that Ichung’wa, through his wife, was involved in the theft of the Sh9 billion from the National Youth Service through the Integrated Financial Management Information System.
Alice Wahome
The demonstrators stated that Ichung’wa, along with other close associates of the deputy president, should be investigated by the Directorate of Criminal Investigations for stealing public funds. They claimed Ichung’wa was also implicated by an itemized phone call records of some of the NYS procurement officers and Ifmis clerks who had been in contact with him multiple times, with some very highly incriminating SMSs and WhatsApp messages being traced to his associates and also between him and Elgeyo Marakwet senator Kipchumba Murkomen and senior aide to the DP, Farouk Kibet.
Kimani Ngunjiri
Sources added that another demonstration will be staged in Kuria’s Gatundu South, where Uhuru hails from. The plot is to see Kuria’s prosecution for stealing NGCDF funds and hate speech he will eventually face criminal prosecution for stealing NGCDF money. The sources said the antigraft agencies have a watertight case against the vocal legislator which will see him land in jail and thereby lose his parliamentary seat. On the table of the sleuths is a dossier detailing how companies owned by the MP’s close relatives and friends received tenders worth millions of shillings from the NG-CDF kitty during his first term as MP.
Moses Kuria
The companies implicated in the theft include Finish Line Construction Ltd which received a Sh5.7 million contract to build four classrooms at Ituuru High School which is partly owned by Aloise Kinyanjui Kuria — the MP’s brother and a Directorate of Criminal Investigations officer in Kiambu.Insiders add that next on the line is Kandara’s Wahome, who alongside other three lawyers stole over Sh284 million belonging to the estate of the late Mbiyu Koinange. Wahome however, alongside the three lawyers, has sued the Directorate of Criminal Investigations, the Director of Public Prosecution, and the Attorney General together with Eddah Mbiyu in a bid to stop their prosecution.
Ndindi Nyoro
Insiders add that the DPP is reviving a case where Wahome assaulted a returning officer over election results. The DPP has watertight evidence against the vocal MP, who is captured in a video clip assaulting and obstructing IEBC returning officer Martin Malonza as he left Ng’araria tallying centre for Bomas in Nairobi during the last general election. If convicted, she will lose her seat thereby occasioning a by-election. Insiders add that Kiharu’s Nyoro is next on the line over the mismanagement of the NG-CDF kitty when he served as chairman during the tenure of Irungu Kang’ata as MP.
Kangata is now the Majority chief whip in the senate and has reportedly agreed to testify to nail Nyoro for stealing CDF money. Nyoro, sources add, received millions of shillings in fictitious allowances which he spent with women. The government auditors dispatched to his constituency have also unearthed massive anomalies in NG-CDF expenditure during his tenure as Kiharu MP. Insiders added that next on the line is Bahati’s Ngunjiri who apart from grabbing huge chunks of land belonging to Kikuyu peasants in Rift Valley; he is also on record for conning the president. It happened that when Ngunjiri was the Kanu leader in Bahati, he approached Uhuru, then the Kanu chairman, with a request to advance him Sh600,000, with a promise of repaying the money in three months time. Uhuru, on realizing that Ngunjiri was facing financial difficulties, advanced him the money.
