Kimilili MP Didmus Barasa and Defence Cabinet Secretary Eugene Wamalwa have locked horns over who helped the other.
Apart from claiming he introduced Barasa to politics, bought him a black Toyota Land Cruiser car that was valued at KSh11 million, the CS further alleged that he gave refuge to the vocal lawmaker.
On his part however, Barasa, a close ally of the Deputy President William Ruto refuted the claims saying his fallout with Wamalwa is due to the fact that the CS wanted to coerce him to ditch the Jubilee party for his newly launched DAP-K party.
Addressing journalist in Nairobi on Thursday, January 13, Barasa acknowledged that it is true he was housed by the CS , he dismissed suggestions he bought him the car.
Barasa instead said he is the one who helped the former Saboti Member of Parliament get appointed to President Uhuru Kenyatta’s Cabinet.
“In his continued efforts to bully me into joining his party DAP K, it is unfortunate that the Defense Cabinet Secretary Eugene Wamalwa has alleged that he introduced me to politics, bought me a (Toyota) Land Cruiser Prado, allowed me to stay in his house and that I insulted him,
“I wish to respond as follows… Immediately after President Uhuru Kenyatta won his re-election in 2017, he named his partial cabinet. Eugene Wamalwa was missing and all the media houses reported that he had been sacked,
“Eugene called me to a meeting at a restaurant in Westlands. He was literally crying after being left out of the cabinet,
“He told me that the President had told him that he (Uhuru) was going to appoint him as an Ambassador to Uganda, stationed at Kampala,” he said.
Barasa said it was at this juncture that he intervened and pleaded to the Head of State to appoint Wamalwa into the Cabinet.
After being appointed, the CS reportedly proposed to buy him a car. Wamalwa, according to Barasa, agreed to fund KSh4 million after the MP raised KSh7 million.
