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CORD leader Raila Odinga has raised fundamental questions regarding the numerous harambees spearheaded by Deputy President William Ruto.
Raila has pointed out, for the umpteenth time, that the DP’s salary is not sufficient to sustain the huge amounts of money that he dishes out at harambees virtually every weekend, or 52 times a year.
While the spirit of harambee is ingrained in Kenyan culture, Kenyans have to wonder at the sources of Ruto’s philanthropic largesse. They wonder, for instance, whether some of that money is from his pay as a public officer.
It is also implausible to argue that those many and frequent millions come from the DP’s private companies, because no firm can haemorrhage so much so often and remain afloat.
If public money is involved in these harambees, there must be full disclosure and justification.
In the past, harambees have been used to perpetuate corruption and patronage whereby well-heeled thieves and criminals gave generously in public to unimpeachable good causes to sanitise their crimes.
In response, the DP has set out to portray Raila as a mean man, a Scrooge of such tightfistedness that he does not give at least 52 times a year. But the fundamental point remains that the source of Ruto’s harambee cash must be interrogated.
Quote of the day: “I learned much more from defeat than I ever learned from winning.” — US writer Grantland Rice died on July 13, 1954.
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