Kipchumba Murkomen has filed a petition against Nandi Senator Samson Cherargei after he accused the CS of receiving a bribe of approximately Ksh.15.3 billion ($100 million) from a Chinese company.
Through his attorneys, the CS asked that the Senator admit the accusation and issue a public apology within a week, failing which he would continue to take legal action against him.
“The said offensive words tend to lower the reputation of our client in the estimation of the ordinary, just and right-thinking members of the society,” stated the letter.
“In view of the above, our instructions are that we demand, which we hereby do, that within seven (7) days from the date of this letter, you do the following: Accept liability for defamation to give way to negotiations and tender an unqualified apology in writing to our client through the same channels through which you published the offending words.”
“Take further notice that if you fail to comply with the terms of this demand within the time specified above, we have firm and unequivocal instructions to institute court proceedings against you without any further reference to you. This will be at your peril as to costs and other incidentals attendant to such court action.” the letter added.
In the allegations, Cherargei spoke in the Senate after Murkomen was summoned to explain the state of the country's roads and other facilities.
Cherargei said that Murkomen had already collected half of the bribe, equivalent to about Ksh.7.6 billion as a deposit.
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"He has visited China severally and you heard on the floor of the House defending Chinese Contractors. Where will the hustler contractors who voted for us go, if you are giving them contexts? Because he received a bribe and I am daring him to come clean on the allegation of receiving a hundred million US Dollars from China Wu Yi when he visited between June and October,” the senator said.
The politician said that the money had been hidden in Dubai and that he could offer proof.
“So I want to dare him to tell the country what agreement he made on allegation of receiving a hundred million US Dollars from China Wu Yi where he was paid an upfront of fifty million, and we have all the facts, we have the flight manifest, we know where the money is in Dubai,” claimed Cherargei.
According to the Senator, the alleged payment was why the CS was reportedly campaigning for Chinese contracts while refusing local individuals the same ones.
"I want him to come out and tell the country because whenever he came to insult me in the funeral he defended the Chinese Contractors, who will defend Kenyans who are contractors, or does it mean that Kenyans don't have the capacity to do roads? Even slashing and unclogging drainages, do we need Chinese to come and slash, where will our young people who do not have jobs go?" The Senator said.
