Wetang’ula promises Ruto tit for tat after ‘insults’

Moses Wetang’ula and Chris Wamalwa have warned the DP of an “equal measure” of responses should he continue “insulting” the opposition.

Wetang’ula (Bungoma Senator) and the Kiminini MP said it wrong for DP William Ruto to insult Cord and asked him to stop.

“If you continue insulting us, expect the same from us in equal measure,” the Senator said at Mitoto Primary School in Kiminini after opening a building funded through CDF.

Cord leaders said on Monday that Ruto should be arrested immediately for his persistent “hate speech campaign” against the opposition’s leadership.

“We want an explanation of what ‘kukaranga mtu’ [to fry someone] means, if it is not hate speech. We might be forced to ‘fry’ him first before he does it to us,”said Machakos Senator Johnstone Muthama.

Wetang’ula asked leaders to pile pressure on the government for an explanation on how billions of shillings are spent.

“County governments are only allocated Sh300 billion. MPs should not only concentrate on what is allocated to counties but put the national government on toes on how more than Sh1.2 trillion is spent,” he said.

He said Ruto may be contributing some of the billions at harambees “every weekend”.

Treasury CS Henry Rotich said last year that the government is seeking to limit travel and hospitality spending to control waste of public cash.

The budget for the 2015/16 financial year was Sh1.2 trillion and Sh2.3 trillion for 2016/17.

Wamalwa referred to the laptops project in terming the Jubilee government corrupt.

An Ipsos survey found 80 per cent Kenyans prefer laptop laboratories in public primary schools as opposed to one laptop per student.

The participants drawn from both Jubilee and Cord supporters voted for laboratories while 15 per cent opted for individual laptops.

The report revealed 66 per cent Cord supporters and 51 per cent Jubilee do not believe the project can be implemented by 2017.