Former AG and Busia Senator Amos Wako has rubbished the travel ban issued to him by the US Department of State.
The senator demanded that the US should make public the list of cases which led to the travel ban.
Wako said the travel ban which had been handed to him and his family as a defamatory matter.
“These accusations do not help in the fight against corruption. If indeed the US is a serious partner in the war against graft, let them share with me and Kenyans the full particulars about the allegations,” he said.
The former AG also added that he is confident over his integrity and has nothing to hide.
Wako said his family was not part of his team during his tenure as the AG and should not have been included in the case.
“Even if I committed the sins of corruption, assume that I committed it, which I am emphatically denying, it would be my personal responsibility and my wife and son and indeed all the members of my family should not be punished for my sins,” Wako said.
He said the involvement of his wife and son was ‘in bad taste’.
“I do not pretend to be Jesus to die for other people’s sins. I am just an ordinary Amos Wako, punish me for my sins.”
Wako confirmed that he had been travelling to the US despite the travel ban issued in 2009.
The senator said there was no need to issue a travel ban yet he had been given another ban a decade ago.