President Uhuru Kenyatta draws red line on graft

President Uhuru Kenyatta addresses the nation, in Parliament, on Government’s progress on development.

President Uhuru Kenyatta’s move to annex a list of high-fliers in his Government on anti-graft agency’s investigation with an executive decree that they step aside caught the country by surprise and threw Parliament into a spin over whether they should be made public or not.

But the President was clear that the personalities appearing on the list which Kenyans were speculating over whose name could be in it on the basis of long-running controversial investigations, including his Cabinet Secretaries, must step aside insisting that he had “drawn the line”. He also was emphatic that he was keen to send Kenyans the ultimate signal his administration was turning the tide on corruption and there was no stopping it.