Maraga Lashes Out at Ruto, Issues 4 Demands in Explosive Letter

Former Chief Justice and Presidential hopeful David Maraga has issued four demands to President William Ruto following his remarks that Parliament is a corrupt institution.
In a statement on Wednesday, August 20, he acknowledged that theMPs were certainly corrupt, but the same was true for the President himself.
“When President William Ruto stood before the country and accused Members of Parliament of demanding money from governors, ministers, and other state officers appearing before them, he cracked open a door that those in power usually keep firmly shut,” he stated.
“It was an extraordinary admission. But it cannot stand alone. If the President can publicly point fingers at Parliament, then he must also open himself to the same scrutiny. Kenyans will not accept a one-sided anti-corruption gospel that spares the pulpit while condemning the pews.”
Most specifically, he alleged that the admission by most MPs that President Ruto had bribed them to unseat his former deputy, Rigathi Gachagua, was “the most diabolical bribing” in Kenya’s history.
He further highlighted the shadowy nature of the money used to fund empowerment drives across the country and pointed out the missing Ksh44.8 billion from eCitizen, as well as the millions wired to ghost schools.
As such, he made four demands that would demonstrate transparency in the fight against corruption, starting with budget transparency.
He demanded that the President identify the budget line funding the empowerment drives and cash handouts by providing a full accounting of expenditure and beneficiaries.
Secondly, he demanded action on mega scandals, including conducting investigations into the eCitizen theft, ghost school payments, and billions in unexplained renovations, with results made public.
In the same vein, he demanded that the government reinstate corruption cases by reversing all discontinued ones from the Uhuru era and removing from office all individuals previously implicated until cleared by the courts.
He also called for equal accountability across the government by extending the same anti-corruption drive to the executive, judiciary, and parastatals, not just parliament.
This comes just days after the President lectured Parliament committees, accusing them of receiving bribes to pass legislation, and threatened legal action against all involved.
On Tuesday, August 19, the Public Accounts Committee directed the Senate Speaker, Amason Kingi and his National Assembly counterpart, Moses Wetangula, to summon the President and have him present evidence of the alleged corruption.
Hours later, the President announced theestablishment of theMulti-Agency Team on War Against Graft(MAT) comprising of representatives from major institutions like National Intelligence Service (NIS), the Ethics and Anti-Graft Commission (EACC), the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (ODPP), and the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) to fight corruption.