Sunday, April 14, 2024 – Celebrated City Lawyer Ahmednasir Abdullahi has warned President William Ruto to fire Agriculture and Livestock Development Cabinet Secretary Mithika Linturi, or else, things will never be the same again for him.
Linturi has been dragged into the saga of a fake fertiliser
brand supplied to Kenyan farmers.
The CS has been dominating headlines and news pages over his
approach to the scandal.
While appearing on the agriculture departmental committees
both in the National Assembly and Senate, Linturi renounced the reports that
the government was supplying fake inputs under its subsidy programme,
clarifying that the fertiliser in question was only short of the requisite
elements.
But, according to Ahmednasir, Linturi could dent Ruto's
legacy if he still keeps him around.
He noted that showing Linturi the door is the current bare
minimum for the president.
"President William Ruto will be excused and even forgiven for overlooking the palpable incompetence of Agriculture CS Mithika Linturi.
"But he will not be forgiven for not acting decisively in chopping off
Linturi's head in light of the treasonous fertiliser scandal in the
ministry," the lawyer said.
Meanwhile, Linturi directed the immediate shutdown of KEL
chemical company pending investigations of fake fertilizer supplied to farmers.
In a statement on Friday, CS Linturi also ordered the
manufacturing license issued to the company to be revoked immediately.
The Agriculture CS issued the directive after he visited the
company’s manufacturing plant in Thika town, Kiambu County.
The Kenyan DAILY POST
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