{"id":727,"date":"2020-01-14T14:43:01","date_gmt":"2020-01-14T14:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/kenya\/?p=727"},"modified":"2020-01-14T14:43:01","modified_gmt":"2020-01-14T14:43:01","slug":"my-track-record-in-fighting-graft-speaks-for-itself-says-president-uhuru","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/policy\/my-track-record-in-fighting-graft-speaks-for-itself-says-president-uhuru","title":{"rendered":"My track record in fighting graft speaks for itself, says President Uhuru"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Uhuru Kenyatta\u00a0(above)<\/strong>\u00a0says his administration is unmatched in the fight against graft and that he has staged a campaign that the country has never witnessed.Addressing the nation from Mombasa, President Uhuru\u00a0affirmed that he would continue supporting the fight against corruption and would not be intimidated by critics.\u00a0\u201cI want to renew my pledge to you on this fight. I will not turn to the left or right, I will not soft-pedal, or back-pedal, nor be intimidated. I will make no covenants with evildoers neither will I show mercy to those who rig our markets in order to enrich themselves,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n

\u201cI seek the indulgence of the Judiciary because I believe that no administration in the history of this country has prosecuted corruption cases the way I have done\u2026from ministers to governors, senior government officers, procurement officers, I have been on the frontline.\u201dUhuru said\u00a0the Executive had fulfilled its mandate in the fight against corruption and that the ball was on the Judiciary\u2019s court to convict the suspects.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have no power of convicting the accused. We have done our part and now the Judiciary should give us convictions as an indication that we are winning this war,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

In what seemed like a thinly-packaged dig at the courts, the President\u00a0referred to the Akasha brothers\u2019 case in which US courts sentenced them within a year after Kenyan courts failed to nail them.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is a shame to our country that we prosecuted a case against drug traffickers in our country and we couldn\u2019t get a prosecution. And, within a year of them being arraigned in the United States, they have been jailed for no less than 25 years. That is something that our Judiciary should come to terms with.”<\/p>\n

He added that the fight against corruption has yielded results because state officers now fear to engage in the vice. He said that the government had changed tack and has resorted to fighting graft at source and not after it has happened.He also directed the National Intelligence Service to focus its attention on unmasking and netting the crooks that he said had\u00a0been looting public resources through public systems of budgeting, procurement, regulations and the illegal rigging of markets.He directed the NIS to look at agriculture sector, this is in the same speech where he dropped Agriculture CS Mwangi Kiunjuri.\u00a0President Uhuru’s address comes at a time that the Judiciary and the Executive are having strained relationships with lawyers and judges accusing\u00a0the Executive\u00a0of defying court orders.Yesterday, the Attorney-General Kihara Kariuki was summoned to appear in court to explain the state\u2019s defiance of court orders issued regarding the return of lawyer Miguna Miguna.<\/p>\n

On November 4, 2019, Chief Justice David Maraga criticised the Executive for mistreating his office.”Unless I am treated with the respect I deserve, I will choose state functions to attend,” CJ David Maraga told a press conference.He added: “The CJ is not accorded the respect accorded to his office…CSs and PSs are cleared to enter in places before the Chief Justice.”\u00a0Maraga lamented that the Judiciary was starved of cash argued and that there were some government officials conspiring to wage war against it over prosecution of some cases.He vowed to stay put despite the challenges.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey have been saying that the CJ must be removed from office before the end of this year, but I will not resign even if they push me to the wall. I am not serving to please any CS or PS; I am here to serve the people,\u201d said Maraga.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

President Uhuru Kenyatta\u00a0(above)\u00a0says his administration is unmatched in the fight against graft and that he has staged a campaign that the country has never witnessed.Addressing the nation from Mombasa, President Uhuru\u00a0affirmed that he would continue supporting the fight against corruption and would not be intimidated by critics.\u00a0\u201cI want to renew my pledge to you on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":728,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8,12],"tags":[433,435,434,362,377],"class_list":["post-727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-policy","tag-akasha-brothers","tag-corruption","tag-judiciary","tag-president-uhuru-kenyatta","tag-record"],"yoast_head":"\nMy track record in fighting graft speaks for itself, says President Uhuru - kenya<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"President Uhuru Kenyatta\u00a0(above)\u00a0says his administration is unmatched in the fight against graft and that he has staged a campaign that the country ....\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/policy\/my-track-record-in-fighting-graft-speaks-for-itself-says-president-uhuru\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"My track record in fighting graft speaks for itself, says President Uhuru\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"President Uhuru Kenyatta\u00a0(above)\u00a0says his administration is unmatched in the fight against graft and that he has staged a campaign that the country ....\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/policy\/my-track-record-in-fighting-graft-speaks-for-itself-says-president-uhuru\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"kenya\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-01-14T14:43:01+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/sites\/28\/2020\/01\/ejwt0khqtqjgri5e1d9870c1d97.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"733\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"459\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/policy\/my-track-record-in-fighting-graft-speaks-for-itself-says-president-uhuru#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/policy\/my-track-record-in-fighting-graft-speaks-for-itself-says-president-uhuru\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"My track record in fighting graft speaks for itself, says President Uhuru\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-01-14T14:43:01+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/policy\/my-track-record-in-fighting-graft-speaks-for-itself-says-president-uhuru\"},\"wordCount\":617,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/policy\/my-track-record-in-fighting-graft-speaks-for-itself-says-president-uhuru#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/sites\/28\/2020\/01\/ejwt0khqtqjgri5e1d9870c1d97.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Akasha brothers\",\"Corruption\",\"Judiciary\",\"President Uhuru Kenyatta\",\"record\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/policy\/my-track-record-in-fighting-graft-speaks-for-itself-says-president-uhuru#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/policy\/my-track-record-in-fighting-graft-speaks-for-itself-says-president-uhuru\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/policy\/my-track-record-in-fighting-graft-speaks-for-itself-says-president-uhuru\",\"name\":\"My track record in fighting graft speaks for itself, says President Uhuru - 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