President William Ruto directed Transport CS Kipchumba Murkomen to 'fire' a government official at the ministry for being corrupt.
Speaking at State House on Tuesday, August 1, during the signing of performance contracts for Ministries, Ruto told Murkomen to make sure that the lady no longer works for the government describing her as "Corrupt to the core".
"There was one lady in one of the Roads department, corrupt to the core, to the extent that she could not be transferred by anybody, even by the Minister, because if she was transferred she would go to court, buy the court process and make sure that she is returned, that is the kind of chronic that corruption has taken us," Ruto said in his address.
"I hope that lady no longer works for the government of Kenya. We cannot have such. There are people who have made government offices their private property," he added.
Ruto fire a warning shot at the CSs saying that corruption had no place in his administration and they should always remember that they are in those positions to work for Kenyans and not to benefit themselves.
"We are servants of the people of Kenya, we are not their masters and we serve at the pleasure of the people of Kenya, we don't serve at their mercy."
He said that corrupt practises by government officials had eroded the trust Kenyans have in government and that it had made it hard for the delivery of election promises.
According to Ruto, some of the corrupt officials are the ones who sabotage the government and, in the end, up sabotaging the whole country because of their greed.
