CS Yatani can run but cannot hide- Duale trashes Yatani’s statement.
Defence cabinet secretary, Aden Duale has told Yatani to come out clean because the law will eventually catch up with him.
This comes, After Yatani released a statement indicating that he did not coerce Mary Nyakongo into signing out a total of ksh. 15B from the government treasury.
Yatani stated that the money was a supplementary fund that was already approved by the national parliament.
Yatani wrote,”For the Controller of Budget to suggest that I pressured her to authorise some payments without parliamentary approval is therefore calculated malice.”
“If there is any doubt in the mind of the public regarding the said expenditure, I invite the constitutional office of the Auditor General to scrutinise this expenditure. And I am confident that she will vindicate my action,” he added.
However, Aden Duale has clarified that he was the majority leader but he does not remember approving such an amount from treasury.
Duale stated,”During my tenure as Majority Leader in the National Assembly, no such callous and unscrupulous deals were transacted.”
” CS Yatani can run but cannot hide. You can try to shift and pass the buck, but watertight evidence adduced by the CoB incriminates you,” he added.
Notably, Duale stated that President William Ruto did not use part of the money to complete his hospital project.Duale highlighted that Yatani was one of the leaders who were used to abuse power as a result of the handshake.
Duale stated,”Stop lying! Never has the President and Commander in Chief Dr William Ruto opened any modern referral facility for the Kenya Defense Forces. You were used and abused by the Handshake brothers and now you bear economic and criminal culpability individually.”
Duale further stated that this case is bigger than it looks because Kenyans are about to know why the opposition wanted to disrupt the presidential results.
He stated,”Kenyans will know why they were desperate to interfere with the results of the General Election.”
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