Justin Muturi Exposes How Ruto Tried to Coerce Him into Signing Ksh129 Billion Tree Planting Deal with Russians

The deal, allegedly worth $1 billion (Ksh129 billion), was intended to fund the planting of three billion trees as part of the government's 15-billion-tree initiative.

Muturi stated that Ruto pressured him to approve the agreement while he was still at the airport, without giving him the chance to review the document.

The former Attorney General firmly declined to endorse the agreement, maintaining that he could not, under any circumstances, approve the document without conducting a thorough review upon his return to the office.

The document was for a deal, purporting to give a grant of one billion US dollars (Ksh129 billion) to allegedly grow three billion trees toward the 15 billion trees target," the former CS explained.

Muturi claimed that the president sought to bypass legal procedures by avoiding the mandatory involvement of the National Treasury in securing the grant.

"I told them the $1 billion can only be by way of a grant, but it cannot come directly to the Ministry...under the PFM Act Section 47, it can only go through the National Treasury. But they were trying to avoid this, yet it's money coming from abroad," Muturi further exposed.