Opposition leader Raila Odinga Friday alleged that two names were left out of the graft list released by President Uhuru Kenyatta a few months ago. With only seven days to go before US President Barack Obama lands in the country, Raila, at a news conference in his Nairobi Capitol Hill offices, named Devolution Cabinet Secretary Anne Waiguru and electoral chief Issack Hassan as those left out of Uhuru’s list. Raila's onslaught on the duo has been on for some time now.

 He has railed against Hassan, claiming that the 2013 General Elections were rigged and was particularly irked when Hassan told the Supreme Court that Raila was a "perennial loser" of polls, and therefore his (Raila's) claim that he was rigged out in the last polls had to be dismissed.

"Your guess is as good as mine on why IEBC officials have to be protected. They delivered for Jubilee," the Opposition leader said yesterday. But the Jubilee leadership immediately dismissed Raila as an “attention seeker struggling for recognition” from the impending visit by President Obama next week.

Speaking a day after he met the chief of the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission, Raila said Waiguru and Hassan should quit and subject themselves to investigations by the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission. But the authenticity of Raila’s comments were immediately put to question after EACC said the commission is not carrying out any investigations against both Waiguru and Hassan.

 See also: Audit reveals ‘misuse of public funds’ in counties “I wish to make it clear that the information provided by the former Prime Minister is completely inaccurate. We are an independent body and we do not carry out our investigations on the basis of politics. The correct position is that we are investigating IFMIS because we got a complaint about it. So far we still have not narrowed down on suspects. If in our investigations we find it necessary to record a statement from Ann Waiguru or anybody else for matter, we shall not hesitate to do that. Similarly we don’t have anything on Hassan," said EACC Deputy Chief Executive Michael Mubea.

 Ngilu petition Obama has already indicated that the fight against graft will be top on his agenda during his visit in Kenya, scheduled to start on Friday. This happened even as it emerged that there was a silent petition by Jubilee MPs to President Kenyatta to fire suspended Lands Cabinet Secrertary Charity Ngilu over her latest comments against the government. Ngilu was quoted by local media as having asked the Jubilee government to resign and equally defended former Vice-President Kalonzo Musyoka over the Yatta National Youth Service land probe.

 Jubilee MPs were, however, reluctant to discuss this matter on record. But the Jubilee leadership led by Majority Leader Aden Duale dismissed the CORD leader as one who is on an “attention seeking mission” chasing recognition from the American government. “How first attention seekers forget. There is nothing new CORD is saying. Jubilee is busy fighting graft perpetuated under the coalition government. Do they remember three Kenyan Embassies were sold, do they remember the maize scandal, the Triton saga, the Yatta land. Now because Obama is coming, they want to be noticed but in actual sense they are idle,” said Duale.