Safina Party deputy leader Willis Otieno has hit back at National Assembly Majority Leader Kimani Ichungw’ah after he bashed former Public Service Cabinet Secretary Justin Muturi’s repeated references to his son’s abductions.
Ichung’wah, while suggesting that the former CS should move on following his ouster from government, decried a tendency by Muturi to revisit the plight that befell his son, whom the MP says is 50 years old.
The remarks were seemingly directed at the CS’s son, who was a victim of an abduction case in 2024, when cases of abductions and forced disappearances of young men were prevalent in the country.
Taking to X on Wednesday, April 16, 2025, the legal practitioner reminded Ichungw’ah that advancing in age does not make one outgrow his familial ties.
“Being 50 doesn’t cancel biology. You don’t outgrow your lineage just because your age adds up. If Justin Muturi calls him ‘my son,’ it’s not a debate, it’s a genealogical fact, not a title earned or revoked by public opinion,” Otieno posted on X.
Otieno’s sentiments followed after Ichungw’ah on Tuesday, April 15, 2025, castigated the former Public Service CS.
“You do not have to be bitter with your son. From one end of the mouth, you seem to be speaking for your son, who is, I think, 50 years old. From the other end, you are so bitter with another son of yours from Mbeere North, who has been appointed as Cabinet Secretary, that you’re now deriding the entire house and a system of the NG-CDF that has worked for the last almost 25 years,” Ichungw’ah stated.
Ichungwa’s sentiments stemmed from an opinion made by the former Cabinet Secretary over the raging debate about the National Government Constituency Development Fund (NG-CDF).
According to Muturi, who presided over the National Assembly as Speaker for two terms from 2013 to 2022, the NG-CDF is meant to unjustly enrich the Members of Parliament (MPs), their families, and cronies.
He said the fund should be scrapped.
“NG-CDF is a corrupt, illegal, and unconstitutional slush fund to unjustly enrich the MPs, their families, and cronies and should, therefore, be scrapped,” Muturi wrote on X.