Keter Exposes Mithika Linturi as Fertiliser Scam Explodes

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Tuesday, April 23, 2024 –Former Nandi Constituency Member of Parliament MP Alfred Keter has shared rare details when the current Agriculture Cabinet Secretary Mithika Linturi was banned from talking in Parliament over graft.

Taking to his socials on Tuesday April 23, Mr. Keter shared that, in the 11^th Parliament which both served, MPs resolved not to allow Linturi address any issue for the rest of the remaining term. This is after the lawmakers noticed his hand in Anne Waiguru corruption case when Waiguru was the devolution minister.

“The day the MPs realized that he was compromised to mess up with an impeachment motion against the then CS for Devolution Anne Waiguru that was it, even the incessant intervention by Hon. Justin Muturi the then speaker of the NA couldn’t bear any fruit! I have repeatedly said that 80% of the Kenya Kwisha Cabinet Secretaries are either very corrupt or incompetent or both,” Keter has claimed.

Keter was speaking this after a business man, Devesh Patel, implicated Linturi in the fake fertiliser distribution to farmers.

This week, details emerged how Agriculture CS Mithika Linturi tried to force an official who had implicated him and other officials in the fake fertiliser scam to issue a statement to admit the product was his.

Devesh Patel, the Chief Operations Officer of Kel Chemicals which was forced to supply fertilizer to National Cereals and Produce Board wrote to the DCI boss Mohamed Amin to expose what happened.

Lawyers Dennis Mosota and Ahmedinasir Abdullahi bothe  representing the company have urged the court to order scrutiny of Linturi and his accomplices.

“Further to the foregoing, we feel inclined to suggest that as you assess individual responsibility in the light of an overall evaluation of complicity, the conduct and involvement of Mr. Franklin Mithika Linturi, the Cabinet Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock and Mr. Joseph Kimote, the Managing Director, National Cereals and Produce Board, should be scrutinized.

“Our client informed us of the attempts by the two public officers to distort the correct account of what transpired, and to present a counter-narrative whose end was to incriminate our client through intimidation and threats and, to absolve other parties that had been adversely mentioned in the scandal. This occurred on the following dates highlighted below,” says the letter.

Linturi has been vocal calling out the African Censored founder John Alan Namu who was the first to expose the rote in his ministry.

Namu would respond saying he will not be bowed.