Economist David Ndii declines Uhuru cabinet offer as DPP prepares for mass arrests

President Uhuru Kenyatta has turned to ODM Party Leader Raila Odinga to help him headhunt for a qualified cabinet secretary to replace beleaguered National Treasury CS Henry Rotich.

The revelations emerged as Kenyan News Day learnt that National Super Alliance economic expert Dr David Ndii had declined Raila’s persuasion to join the Jubilee cabinet and help Uhuru put things into order.

CS Rotich is currently deeply embroiled in the multi-billion scandal of the Arror and Kimwarer dams in Elgeyo Marakwet County, having undergone a record four days of grilling at the Directorate of Criminal Investigations headquarters. He has been asked to submit a resignation as Uhuru seeks a qualified candidate to replace him.

Renowned economist Ndii reportedly declined Odinga’s request saying the mess in Jubilee was too widespread and Kenya’s macro-economic environment was damaged beyond repair weighed down by debt and runaway corruption.

Responding to Kenyans via his twitter handle, Ndii publicly stated he did not want to ruin his reputation by associating with Uhuru Kenyatta nor his government.

Memo to #KOT
Please stop associating my name with @Ukenyatta. Its demeaning.
Let me quote myself (2015):
Their [Uhuru,Ruto] backgrounds may be as different as chalk and cheese but in terms of political morality, there is nothing to choose between them”
Heshima tafadhali https://t.co/qUCO2kWEPc

— David Ndii (@DavidNdii) March 5, 2019

Sources at Raila’s office told Kenyan News Day that Ndii was however reportedly willing to be a member of an independent economic recovery taskforce if Uhuru and Raila were willing to give them a free hand to craft a new economic stimulus program and totally discard prevailing fiscal policies.

Ndii has openly called Uhuru’s Big-4 agenda a pipedream.

Rotich has been CS in charge at the National Treasury since Jubilee came to power and experts agree his continued stay at that office is no longer tenable.

In other news, the Director of Public Prosecution has confirmed loss of more than Sh20 billion connected to the controversial construction of the Kimwarer and Arror dam projects in Elgeyo Marakwet.

Through a statement to the media, DPP Noordin Haji said the scandal involved substantive senior government officials as well as key players in the private sector.

The DPP further revealed that an international financial investigation was underway to unravel the third party beneficiaries of billions of shillings remitted by Treasury to the insolvent Italian contractor CMC di Ravenna.

It is believed the DPP’s statement is buying time for President Uhuru Kenyatta to put in place necessary government reorganisation mechanism to absorb effects of the ensuing political fallout once arrests and prosecutions are put in motion.

Ndii has repeatedly said he was not interested to serve in Uhuru’s cabinet saying Jubilee had over the years ignored his advise and today Kenya was tinkering on the verge economic collapse due to Jubilee corruption and incompetence.

The President is planning a radical surgery of Kenya’s economic sector and public financial operations.

Sources told Kenyan News Day the President would likely be nominating John Gachora, NIC Bank CEO, as replacement for John Njiraini, the long serving Kenya Revenue Authority Director General.

Where as Uhuru is anxious to rid the government of corrupt individuals who are undermining his legacy Big-4 agenda, he has over the last one year been held back by fear of a political backlash especially from Ruto’s Kalenjin base in the Rift Valley.

Evidence at the DCI suggests Deputy President William Ruto along with his close allies are involved in the dam construction scandal and Uhuru is at a loss of ordering the arrest and prosecution of his own Deputy.

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