Junet Mohamed Breaks Silence Over ODM Agent Funds Row, Shifts Blame to Uhuru Allies
National Assembly Minority Leader Junet Mohamed has firmly rejected claims that he mishandled funds meant to pay Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) election agents during Kenya’s hotly contested 2022 General Election, instead pointing the finger at individuals close to former President Uhuru Kenyatta.
The senior ODM figure issued a detailed response on Saturday after the party’s Secretary General, Edwin Sifuna, publicly challenged him to account for why ODM agents were allegedly absent from polling stations or left unpaid on election day — a failure widely viewed as having weakened Raila Odinga’s presidential bid.
However, Junet insisted that the responsibility for the agents’ recruitment and payment lay far beyond ODM’s official campaign structures.
“The answer is simple, clear and verifiable,” Junet said. “Former President Uhuru Kenyatta released the funds meant for election agents to his blood brother, Muhoho Kenyatta.”
According to Junet, Muhoho Kenyatta then took full control of the process and appointed a man identified as Patrick Mburu to oversee the recruitment, deployment and payment of agents.
Junet alleged that Mburu presented himself to the coalition as a highly skilled information technology expert, claiming he had the ability to detect and prevent any manipulation of results by the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC).
“Mburu presented himself as an IT expert, claiming he had the capacity to detect and prevent any manipulation of results by the IEBC,” Junet said, adding that Mburu remains a close aide of the former president.
To reinforce his claim, Junet pointed to Mburu’s continued proximity to Uhuru Kenyatta even after the election.
“Just this past weekend, Mburu travelled to Nigeria in the company of Uhuru Kenyatta and Kalonzo Musyoka — clear evidence that he is not a peripheral figure in these matters,” he claimed.
Junet further alleged that the handling of the agents’ funds was carried out from a highly restricted office in Nairobi’s Westlands area, an operation he said was deliberately kept beyond the reach of most ODM officials — including Raila Odinga himself.
“Around the time, Muhoho Kenyatta operated from an office in Westlands that was so restricted that even Raila Odinga, the party’s presidential candidate, could not access it freely,” Junet said.
“It is from this office — out of bounds for nearly all of us — that they claimed to handle the agents’ payments and other logistics.”
The Minority Leader went on to accuse those in charge of failing to recruit or deploy agents in key strongholds, a lapse he said proved costly to the opposition campaign.
“Once they took charge, they never procured any agents for Raila Odinga — not in Mt Kenya and not in Luo Nyanza,” Junet alleged.
Dismissing suggestions that he had betrayed the ODM leader, Junet cited his continued rise within the party as evidence of Raila Odinga’s trust in him.
“Raila Odinga would have had no reason whatsoever to appoint me — Junet Mohamed — as the Leader of Minority in the National Assembly if I had truly betrayed him,” he said.
Junet concluded by calling on those he accused to publicly account for their actions, saying the Kenyan public deserved clarity over who controlled and handled the controversial funds.
“Kenyans deserve the truth about the handling of agents’ money — who controlled it, who mishandled it — and then decide who really cost us the election,” he said.
Junet Mohamed Breaks Silence Over ODM Agent Funds Row, Shifts Blame to Uhuru Allies