Jubilee Secretary General Raphael Tuju has issued a hard-hitting statement demanding accountability from Deputy President William Ruto.
In his statement, Tuju who heads the Jubilee party secretariat also made two requests to the second in command.
The Jubilee SG requested DP Ruto to explain how much he remits as tax to the Kenya Revenue Authority from his chicken business which he said makes Sh1.5 million daily from selling eggs.
Tuju also asked to know why the Sh7 billion the DP claimed was lost in the Arror and Kimwarer dams sag had not been returned, despite him having business interests in Italy which is home to the company contracted to construct the dams.
"We request a truthful response of the DP to these matters raised for the sake of Kenyans. The time is over for cheap media spin-doctoring as we witnessed recently that he will even accept the G4S Security. Now that we know the G4S are his standard, it should be easy to calculate the price per askari who were posted to his private properties during the era of blackmail stock options and have it paid to Kenyan tax payers. May be we can also extend that little refund to Wanjiku," read the statement.
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He added, "In the small matter of Arror and Kimwarer saga the DP told Kenyans that ONLY 7 Billion shillings had disappeared. This situation obtained when he had gone to Rome Italy on private business. His own daughter was the deputy ambassador in Rome at that time. To our knowledge, this money has never been returned by the Italians."
File Image of DP William Ruto and SG Raphael Tuju
Tuju in the statement further accused the DP of sabotaging President Uhuru Kenyatta during their first term in office, between 2013 and 2017 through blackmail.
According to him, DP Ruto wielded a lot of power that he demanded only people from his tribe be appointed to powerful positions in the cabinet.
"These unfortunate demands of the Deputy President would extend to other senior political appointments in government for the whole of 2013 to 2017 circle. The DP exhibited an amazing level of shortsightedness by failing to appreciate the fact that even those Kenyans belonging to other ethnic communities that did not vote for the Uhuru Kenyatta government, were at the end of the day still Kenyans who had a right to services and to opportunity to work and do business with government," said Tuju.
The Jubilee SG demanded that the Deputy President to ask allied MPs to stop their attacks on the President saying that they will not be dragged into his social media fights.
"As a Party, we are sending the DP a public message that we will not countenance his venturing into crossing this line. He must call all his goons to order. We continue to resist a lot of provocation luring us to get into the slimy and smelly social media pig stay that some of these people occupy. But we have the truth on our side and Kenyans will be made to know the truth," he said.
Tuju noted that in 2015 the DP said he was worth Sh100 million and should explain to Kenyans how he has managed to create all the wealth he has in seven years.
"In the intervening seven years. He has “worked very hard” in his businesses and now therefore he has assets like choppers, hotels and land worth Billions of shillings," he added.
