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Junet says a powerful Nyanza CS called him over the impeachment plot and asked pertinent questions that informed them not to accept Ruto's offer.

Suna East Member of Parliament Junet Mohamed has revealed details of a call he received from a senior Cabinet Secretary from the Nyanza region over an alleged plot to impeach President Uhuru Kenyatta.

In a wide-ranging interview with Nation, Junet opened up on intrigues surrounding allegations of plans by Ruto to topple Uhuru out of the office.

Over the weekend, the President is reported to have told a group of 3000 Mt Kenya elders that the DP plotted to kick him out of the office, a matter that forced him to reach out to ODM leader Raila Odinga and strike a working-together relationship.

In the interview with the daily, Junets claims that indeed, there was a plot to impeach Uhuru and that the DP reached out to his boss Raila to make the plan a success.

He says Raila was promised a running mate slot.

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He says the DP had started making the impeachment arrangements after it dawned on him that the President was not willing to replicate the modus Operandi that was evident in their first term in office.

His claim came even as the ODM leader on Monday said he was not aware of the impeachment plan.

{ODM leader Raila Odinga and deputy president William Ruto. Image: Courtesy}

Junet said that the intelligence team got wind of the impeachment report and they had to make the right moves not to throw the country into a quagmire.

“A senior and powerful minister from Nyanza called me with a stern warning. He asked why we wanted to take the country down the hill, why we wanted to destroy the country. It got us thinking because, with the government already in the picture, we needed to be careful on our moves. That’s when Raila chose to tell Uhuru the full extent of the plan,” Mohamed says.

The new revelations by Junet are likely to kick a storm in the political scenes considering that Uhuru's remarks on Saturday elicited czar criticism from a section of Kenyans.

Ruto on Sunday boldly came out to dismiss the impeach plot saying "I am not a fool to bring down the government that I helped form".

The remarks by Uhuru jolted the Kenya Kwanza Alliance who came to the defence of the DP by dismissing the reports as baseless claims and propaganda.