Nairobi, August 20- Former Chief Justice and presidential aspirant, David Maraga has turned the spotlight on President William Ruto, demanding that he subject himself to the same anti-corruption scrutiny he has directed at Parliament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In a strongly worded statement on Wednesday, August 20, Maraga said that while MPs are indeed riddled with corruption, the President cannot exempt himself from the same charges. He argued that Ruto\u2019s public attack on legislators for allegedly extorting money from state officers was an \u201cextraordinary admission,\u201d but one that must be matched with action at the highest level of government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cKenyans will not accept a one-sided anti-corruption gospel that spares the pulpit while condemning the pews,\u201d Maraga declared.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The former CJ accused Ruto of presiding over what he described as the \u201cmost diabolical bribery\u201d in Kenya\u2019s history the alleged payments to MPs during the ouster of former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
He further cited questions surrounding billions of shillings in unexplained government spending, including KSh44.8 billion allegedly missing from eCitizen, funds wired to ghost schools, and cash fueling political empowerment programs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Maraga laid out four specific demands to demonstrate the government\u2019s seriousness in fighting graft:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
His remarks came a day after the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) directed Senate Speaker Amason Kingi and National Assembly Speaker Moses Wetang\u2019ula to summon the President to present evidence on his claims of MPs taking bribes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In response to mounting pressure, President Ruto has since announced the creation of a Multi-Agency Team on War Against Graft (MAT), bringing together the NIS, EACC, ODPP, and DCI to spearhead investigations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Maraga\u2019s intervention signals a brewing political and institutional battle over who truly holds the moral authority to lead Kenya\u2019s war on corruption.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Nairobi, August 20- Former Chief Justice and presidential aspirant, David Maraga has turned the spotlight on President William Ruto, demanding that he subject himself to the same anti-corruption scrutiny he has directed at Parliament. In a strongly worded statement on Wednesday, August 20, Maraga said that while MPs are indeed riddled with corruption, the President cannot exempt himself from the same charges. He argued that Ruto\u2019s public attack on legislators for allegedly extorting money from state officers was an \u201cextraordinary admission,\u201d but one that must be matched with action at the highest level of government. \u201cKenyans will not accept a one-sided anti-corruption gospel that spares the pulpit while condemning the pews,\u201d Maraga declared. The former CJ accused Ruto of presiding over what he described as the \u201cmost diabolical bribery\u201d in Kenya\u2019s history the alleged payments to MPs during the ouster of former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua. He further cited questions surrounding billions of shillings in unexplained government spending, including KSh44.8 billion allegedly missing from eCitizen, funds wired to ghost schools, and cash fueling political empowerment programs. Maraga laid out four specific demands to demonstrate the government\u2019s seriousness in fighting graft: His remarks came a day after the Public Accounts Committee …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3425,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.moradiofm.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.moradiofm.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.moradiofm.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.moradiofm.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.moradiofm.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3424"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.moradiofm.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3426,"href":"https:\/\/news.moradiofm.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3424\/revisions\/3426"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.moradiofm.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.moradiofm.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.moradiofm.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.moradiofm.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}