NAIROBI, Kenya Apr 4 \u2013 Former Public Service Cabinet Secretary Justin Muturi has made explosive allegations against President William Ruto, accusing him of overseeing corrupt dealings behind the scenes while publicly preaching integrity.<\/p>\n
In a candid interview with NTV\u2019s Fixing the Nation<\/em>, Muturi, who served in Ruto\u2019s Cabinet for nearly two years, claimed the president was \u201cirredeemably corrupt\u201d and portrayed a dual character\u2014one for the public and another in private.<\/p>\n \u201cHe is quite a dangerous character. I think Ruto is unfit for the position of president. I have no bitterness; this is my honest assessment,\u201d Muturi said. \u201cWhen I watch him tell members of the Cabinet that he doesn\u2019t want to see corruption in his government, I always wonder because I know the kind of person he is.\u201d<\/p>\n Muturi alleged that Ruto tried to pressure him into approving a Sh129 billion deal with Russian investors to fund a tree-planting initiative. According to Muturi, the president called him during COP28 in Dubai, urging him to sign documents authorising the deal at the airport\u2014an action Muturi refused, citing legal and procedural concerns.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Sh129 billion deal was presented as a grant to plant three billion trees. But I told them, such funds can only go through the Treasury, not directly to a ministry,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n He further claimed that the project, like others pushed by the president, was a money-making scheme disguised as development. \u201cWhenever Ruto comes up with a project, it\u2019s about money,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n Muturi also linked Ruto to the controversial Arror and Kimwarer dam projects, for which the government secured a Ksh.63 billion loan from the Italian firm CMC di Ravenna. He said he declined to sign off on the projects due to discrepancies in cost and quality, and concerns about accountability.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Italians were paid billions. In Kimwarer, nothing has happened because the report was faulty. They wanted me to sign, and I declined,\u201d Muturi said, adding that Ruto personally engaged with Italy\u2019s leadership over the matter.<\/p>\n Muturi, who was dismissed from the Cabinet in recent reshuffles and replaced by Mbeere North MP Geoffrey Ruku, denied having a personal vendetta. He maintained that his revelations are based on facts and expressed willingness to share supporting documents in soft copy.<\/p>\n His allegations are the latest twist in what has become a very public fallout with President Ruto.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" NAIROBI, Kenya Apr 4 \u2013 Former Public Service Cabinet Secretary Justin Muturi has made explosive allegations against President William Ruto, accusing him of overseeing corrupt dealings behind the scenes while publicly preaching integrity. In a candid interview with NTV\u2019s Fixing the Nation, Muturi, who served in Ruto\u2019s Cabinet for nearly two years, claimed the president […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}