MP accuses President Uhuru Kenyatta of hosting South Sudan rebel leaders

MACHAKOS COUNTY: As fighting rages on in South Sudan, a Wiper party MP has accused the Jubilee administration of hosting key financiers of rebels.

Matungulu MP Stephen Mule claims the Government has been using taxpayers’ money to host 11 wealthy rebels allied to former South Sudan Vice President Riech Machar in Nairobi.

Mr Mule asked President Uhuru Kenyatta to have them deported. Tuesday, Mule named the 11, whom he says were former high-ranking officials in President Salva Kiir’s government before the sacking of his former VP-turned rebel leader, Dr Machar.

The legislator claimed that he has information to prove that 10 of them are being hosted at a Nairobi hotel, while one of them lives in a luxurious city estate.

Since December last year, rebel soldiers allied to Machar have engaged the country’s forces in a deadly battle that has so far left thousands dead and displaced over 1.5 million others in the world’s youngest state.

Addressing journalists after leading a fundraiser at Tala Central Salvation Army Church, Mule said he and other CORD MPs have gathered sufficient evidence relating to the wealth and assets of the alleged rebel leaders.

The MP further alleges that the said rebels, who he has christened G11 plus one, have been courting the Government to allocate it a temporary military base in Lokichoggio.

“If South Sudan fails as a state, we shall be creating another Somalia and that could lead to severe consequences to Kenya as a country,” the legislator said.