Wafula Buke: Sifuna’s Statement On Corruption Takes Me Back To My Times At Orange House

The purchase of the new Orange House brought out a bit of this trait. One day, those who claimed to have brokered the deal called me. This was after the transaction had appeared in the papers. They told me that they had been denied their agency fee and further alleged that the real price was 130 million not the 170m that was in the papers.

I called Kawino and Oduor and raised my concerns and warned that the story was headed to the newspapers. They pleaded with me to kill the story saying it was false. I advised the jilted agents to hold their horses till I investigated fully.

Edwin Sifuna was reported to have been furious when he learned of the story but cooled down after a “conversation” with the Orange House duo.

A colleague went looking for the agent in kericho and invited him to Orange House where he was given 50k and told to be silent. My investigation brought out info that I feared would turn me into a biblical Samson so I decided to hunt down the Pope and share with him.

At the time my frustrations with the Secretariat was killing me so when the NEC appointed Oduor and Pareno to oversee reforms at the party, I couldn’t wait to come back from South Africa. I exploded on the NEC resolutions thru FB.

The need for my departure from Orange House reportedly became urgent to clear the way for the “smooth’ running of the office.

When I came back, I received a “show cause” letter from Oduor and Sifuna. I wrote back and told them that if the past was replayed, “I would do exactly the same thing that I had done”

Before the management Committee Chaired by Edwin Sifuna, tasked to interrogate me, I asked them;

“Why are you people pretending? You are sacking me to clear the way for a corrupt deal on the new office? I have video evidence and witnesses”
Sifuna who was seated upright sunk back in his chair shocked. Imagine nobody asked a single question on the matter.

Wafula Buke is a former director for political affairs and strategy of ODM.