Murang'a Governor Irungu Kang'ata, who is also a lawyer, has responded to allegations that his former Senate staff members were falsely included in the petition as relatives of the victims of the March 2019 Ethiopian Airlines crash. The governor is in the spotlight over his role in the compensation case against American plane manufacturer Boeing and the airline company that emerged in 2019.
According to an exposé aired by NTV on Wednesday, two of his former staff members in the Senate between 2017 and 2022, Davis Mburu Karanja and Peter Njuguna, along with associates Jane Wairimu and John Kunyia, have come forward with allegations implicating the governor in a scam.
They claim they cannot understand why the governor included their names in a petition purporting to be from families of those who perished in the crash, despite not having lost anyone in the tragedy.
A photo of Murang'a Governor Irungu Kang'ata.
