Siaya Governor James Orengo on Thursday dared the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) to arrest him.
Orengo in his statement dated April 25, accused the EACC Chief Executive Officer Twalib Mbarak of making reckless, irresponsible and unjustified sentiments aimed at intimidating him.
According to Orengo, EACC's comments on his potential graft probe were nothing new to him with the governor terming the move as a provocative one.
The governor noted there had been arrests made in Siaya County as long as six years ago but no prosecutions had been made so far.
“Complaints in regard thereto have been made many a time. But apropos the Governor, we say bring it on without delay," the governor commented.
Orengo's remarks came shortly after Twalib Mbarak mentioned that a prominent governor, who also practised law, was under the commission's scrutiny.
Speaking at the Commission's workshop, Mbarak stated that detectives from EACC would imminently take action against the Siaya governor, whom they accused of graft involvement.
“Yesterday the noise they made one of the people there was a governor and his county is on our red flag so you can tell that lawyer-cum-governor we may end up in his place very soon,” Twalib Mbraka stated while referencing Siaya Governor James Orengo.
“We did not start investigating Wairia and Wataani yesterday or six months ago, we started it long ago even when he was the CS treasury we were still investigating him on issues when he was a governor,” Mbarak added.
The cryptic comments from the EACC CEO followed James Orengo's appearance in court to defend former Treasury Cabinet Secretary Ukur Yatani, who faced graft allegations and was arrested by the EACC.
Orengo while defending the former CS accused EACC of malice and propagating the arrest through political influence.
The ex-treasury CS was arrested on April 23 by EACC detectives after he was accused of involvement in graft when he was the governor of Marsabit County.
