CS Murkomen Sues Senator Cherargei Over Claims He Received Ksh.15B Bribe From China
Transport and Roads Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen has submitted a legal request accusing Nandi Senator Samson Cherargei of corruption totaling Ksh.15.3 billion.
In a communication penned on November 29, 2023, Murkomen alleged that the Senator committed defamation by making claims that the Cabinet Secretary received a bribe exceeding Ksh.15.3 billion ($100M) from China Wu Yi, a Chinese Company, earlier in the year.
Murkomen, via his legal representatives, insisted that the Senator acknowledge the allegation and issue a public apology within seven days. If the Senator failed to comply, the CS would pursue further legal recourse 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.
“Given 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.”
The latter added: “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.”
During the allegations mentioned, Cherargei addressed the Senate following Murkomen’s summons to clarify the condition of roads and other infrastructure across the nation.
Cherargei, who has had multiple recent conflicts with the Cabinet Secretary, claimed that Murkomen had already been paid half of the mentioned bribe, totaling more than Ksh.7.6 billion, as an initial payment.
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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 in the month of between June and October,” the MP said.
The lawmaker went on to claim that the said rumsum had been stashed in Dubai adding that he could even provide the evidence.
“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.
As per the Senator’s statement, the purported bribe was the reason behind the CS supposedly supporting the awarding of contracts to Chinese entities in the country while simultaneously withholding the same opportunities from local citizens.
“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.
CS Murkomen Sues Senator Cherargei Over Claims He Received Ksh.15B Bribe From China
