Azimio La Umoja One Kenya Coalition has come out to defend Controller of Budget Margaret Nyakango after her arrest and charging in court.

Ms. Nyakango was on Tuesday, December 5 arrested and taken to Mombasa Law Courts, where she was charged with three charges of forgery, operating a Sacco without proper license, and conspiracy to defraud.

She pleaded not guilty to the charges and was eventually released on a bond of KSh2 million or a cash bail of KSh500,000.

But a few hours after her release on bail, the opposition coalition now says that Nyakango’s woes are a plot by the Kenya Kwanza government to send her packing.

“The arrest [of Margaret Nyakango] was always coming, in light of her determination to act professionally and with integrity in a regime infested by crooks and unprofessional conduct,” Azimio Party Leader Raila Odinga says in a statement.

Raila says that the government wants to send Nyakango packing on frivolous and trumped up charges to create room for a ‘friendly’ holder of the office, “who will support and sanitize the looting currently underway.”

“Her tribulations are thus politically motivated witch hunt, which the EACC will find difficult to convince Kenyans about, at a time Kenyans are wreathing under full-blown corruption,” Raila alleges.

‘We stand with you’

The coalition further says that it will stand with Nyakango, encouraging her to remain strong in defense of integrity, professionalism, and the dictates of good governance.

“As a party, we stand with Ms Nyakango and will offer whatever help we can in the interest of the war against corruption in the country. This struggle will be nasty and long but it is one Kenyans cannot afford to lose,” Raila concludes.

Kisii MPs defend Nyakango

Lawmakers from Kisii region have also come out in defence of Nyakango, reading political witch-hunt.