Nakuru Senator Susan Kihika has accused President Uhuru Kenyatta of preaching water and drinking wine after he and his family was mentioned in the Pandora Papers, despite his tough stance on war against corruption locally.
According to the Pandora papers, President Kenyatta and six members of his family secretly own a network of offshore companies. The Kenyatta family has been linked to 11 firms; one of which has assets valued at over $30m which translates to Kshs3.3 billion.
Reports on BBC indicate that a foundation named Varies was set up by the Kenyatta family in 2003. Kenya’s former First Lady Mama Ngina Kenyatta is reportedly the first benefactor while President Kenyatta is the second beneficiary.
Following the revelation, Senator Kihika accused Uhuru of leading in corruption while at the same time claiming to be fighting it in his government.
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Nakuru Senator Susan Kihika. [Photo: Courtesy]
She suggested that with the revelation, the President’s time was up, adding that the international media had done a great job in releasing the expose.
“When you preach water and drink wine! This guy lectured us day in and day out on corruption yet it’s the only thing he leads from the front on! Thank God for international media as he has managed to muzzle local media. Appears his 40 days are up!” she tweeted.
On his part, Kericho Senator Aaron Cheruiyot while reacting to the Pandora Papers revelation said: “#Client13173.. Guy who has Fulizad everything in GOK and left citizens with no source of livelihood other than Fuliza which he owns,there he makes an average of Ksh 600 Million monthly... One day it has to be Fulizwad back to the owners, the Kenyan people. One way or the other!”
Kiharu MP Ndindi Nyoro said: “We hope our community which is in "statehouse" will get something from this. However, state Capture is worse. Milk, fintech, illegal mining et al. And they have the confidence and temerity to lecture us from dawn to dusk!”
Kikuyu MP Kimani Ichungwah said: “When they told us not to open the pandoras box, we didn’t. Now, why have they shred it into papers? Now the contents are scattered all over.
