In Summary
- Fuel cards for Mama Ngina’s her vehicles have been blocked and vehicle maintenance denied.
- Dena says Statehouse has refused to renew contracts of Spokesperson Kanze Dena and Administrative Secretary George Kariuki.
- Statehouse has refused to facilitate repairs and maintenance of Uhuru’s vehicles nor even fuelling them.
Retired President Uhuru Kenyatta has alleged that his staff are being called in the middle of the night by the government to be threatened and intimidated.
Uhuru Staff Threatened at Midnight
Speaking during a press conference, Uhuru’s spokesperson Kanze Dena also revealed that the staff have not been paid for two years now forcing the former President to pay them from his pocket.
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“There is unceremonial withdrawal and intimidation of staff via phone calls at midnight,” She said.
“They were being called at night but we also have to protect our people. Sometimes we get multiple calls of different instructions late at night,”
“Unfortunately we have not earned a salary for the last two years. I am not able to quantify how much it is that the former president has been able to spend because that includes fuelling, the food we eat as staff, travel bills, electricity,”
Statehouse is Not repairing my Vehicles, Uhuru
While stating how the government is frustrating Uhuru, Dena alleged that Uhuru has also not received new vehicles as stipulated in law hence forcing him to use old transition vehicles which she alleges statehouse has refused to fuel.
“The government of the day has not provided any vehicles and we would like to clarify that on the 18th of July 2023 at 7 pm, all her drivers and security details were withdrawn from their residences via phone,”
Kanze Dena said that the former president has only received 28 million shillings out of 655 million shillings allocated during the 2022/2023 financial year.
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“To date, the office can only confirm absorption of roughly Sh28 million spread across payment of allowances for domestic travels as well as facilitation of the two trips mentioned earlier that were honoured,”
A seemingly angry Dena also added that the government of the day has not undertaken nor facilitated any repairs and maintenance of vehicles under the office nor have they fueled any cars under the office which she said was hampering operations.
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Uhuru has also said that the security detail of former First Lady Ngina Kenyatta has not been reinstated since its withdrawal in July 2023 stating that the State House cancelled the fuel cards for her vehicles.
