SOURCES: After Edwin Sifuna and Linda Mwananchi's brigade swept through Trans Nzoia and Kitale today, a top source says an emergency meeting is underway at the House on the Hill.
With Bungoma next on the itinerary, the whispers are that every option is being explored to contain Sifuna's growing celebrity status. The crowds, it seems, are becoming the biggest opposition of all.
It was horrifying for me to watch a video on @X showing the CS for Finance, @JohnMbadiN, displaying Kshs. 10,000,000 in cash as “donations” from the MP for Suna East, @JunetMohamed, and a similar amount, also in cash, from @WilliamsRuto.
As they did that, most pupils in rural Kenya are forced to learn under trees or in dilapidated structures; tens of thousands of children die of malaria and other preventable diseases; most county health facilities have no medicines, physicians and medical equipment; about 80% of the youth are jobless; and tens of millions of Kenyans are living under subhuman conditions
As I have stated elsewhere before, anyone who carries tens of millions of shillings in cash and/or in other denominations cannot claim that the money isn’t part of an organized and sophisticated money laundering scheme. This is particularly the case when the people displaying such colossal amounts of cash in public either occupy or used to occupy public offices.
There are anti-money laundering laws which prohibit the withdrawal and use of more than Kshs 1,000,000 in cash at any one time. This is aside from the fact that public officials should be required to explain the sources of such vast sums of money by the @EACCKenya.
My considered view is that by displaying such huge sums of cash in public, Ruto, Mbadi and Junet were publicly engaged in money laundering, grand corruption and proved that in Kenya, the Mafia is the government!
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