Lands Cabinet Secretary Charity Ngilu accuses her critics of harbouring ulterior motives

By Francis Ontomwa

Kenya: Embattled Lands, Housing and Urban Development Cabinet Secretary Charity Ngilu has defended herself from MPs plotting for her removal from office, citing it as a case of graft fighting back.

Ngilu recently answered her critics by declaring they were harbouring ulterior motives aimed at scuttling her efforts at ridding the ministry of corruption.

Speaking in Budalangi Constituency where she commissioned two markets, she accused her political enemies of executing their warped mission to oust her from the powerful docket.

“They know what I have done, what I stand for and it’s my fight against graft in the Lands ministry that has shaken my enemies. This is a job I was given by President Uhuru Kenyatta and I will not cede ground for anybody or anything,” she said.

Ngilu’s sharp reaction comes in the wake of a scheme by Eldas MP Adan Keynan to solicit signatures that would petition for her removal from Cabinet.

Keynan, the chairman of Public Investments Committee recently claimed he had collected over 30 signatures and hoped to attain the requisite number to have the motion slotted for debate in Parliament.

Speaking during the same occasion, Ababu Namwamba absolved his ODM party from Ngilu’s woes and instead accused Jubilee of an in-house plot to oust Ngilu.

He alleged that a scheme was in the offing to push Ngilu out so as to favour some people to ensure the two biggest communities in Cabinet stamp their authority in the Jubilee government.