Gachagua Ready to Confess he was in the Room with Ruto Working with Al Shaabab and RSF

Being dense is not a bad thing but sometimes it has limits and can have very bad consequences.

Rigathi Gachagua has told Kenyans that he is going to the US Senate Committee hearing to spill the beans that he was in the room when Ruto was making deals with Sudan Rebel Group RSF and Al Shaabab so he knows what was going on.

If he was in the room with President Ruto in his capacity as the Deputy President at that time and they were working with groups like Al Shaabab, the US which is at war with Al Shaabab, should arrest him upon his arrival for the confession so they can squeeze more parroting against his country.

The CIA know how to do the squeezing and Gachagua might like that and pour his heart out for them. That will be good for our country or so the man thinks.

Former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua has urged the US Government to impose sanctions on President William Ruto after reviewing Kenya’s designation as a non-NATO ally. 

“Do the right thing and impose sanctions on William Ruto to never step in America.” Gachagua hopes to ask from the US senate hearings.

The little guy doesn’t know that America has no time imposing sanctions on individuals because that list will be in thousands of people. The US loves to impose sanctions on countries because that is what hurts those countries and their leaders.

The US biggest enemy to the US at some time was Fidel Castro as the president of Cuba and he used to go there to talk in the UN General Assembly meetings. The US has imposed sanctions on Cuba since 1959 and that sanction is still on today 65 years later.

We don’t know yet how many years of sanctions Gachagua wants the US to impose on Kenya. It could last until most of us are dead. If that pleases Gachagua, so be it. Kenyans will live with it.

Fidel Castro’s Fateful Visit to New York in 1960

When Fidel Castro arrived in New York to address the UN General Assembly in September 1960 he was a minor player on the world stage, the head of a Caribbean nation who had been in power barely 18 months. By the time he left just a week and a half later, everyone knew his face.

The US imposed sanctions on Cuba because they though that was the best way to harm Fidel Castro as well as Cuban citizens who supported him.

When sanctions limits trade and economic opportunities between sanctioned countries and the US which is a big market for goods around the world the citizens of those countries will bare the pain and hopefully fight their leaders on behalf of the US governments.

Political leaders usually don’t care too much for those sanctions because many of them do not want to go to the US in the first place. Most leaders in any country are proud of their countries, otherwise they would have no interest in leading those countries.

Right now the most hated leader by the US who Donald Trump would kill if he ever had a chance is Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.

Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei addresses the nation on Iranian state television broadcast in Tehran, Iran on June 18, 2025.

Has the US ever imposed sanctions on the Iranian Supreme Leader or even the president of Iran? There is no sanction on those individuals because the US leaders are not stupid.

The US has imposed every possible sanction on Iran as a country so that when the country suffers and the people suffer then they are supposed to fight their leaders and that is what the US seeks to achieve with sanctions. In fact the US has imposed sanctions on other countries for have close relations with Iran.

Like now Trump would be very happy to impose sanctions on Kenya because they see the country is having good relations with China, their economic enemy.

It is not Ruto who is having good relations with China. It is Kenya which is having economic deals with China and would therefore do more business with them and reduce its trade with the US. That is the issue at stake not the petty little things Gachagua is obsessed with.

President Trump actually is concerned with other African countries as well and wants them to cut off their links with China.

Speaking in Olathe, Kansas City, on Wednesday, August 6, Gachagua asked the American government not to punish Kenya but instead to impose travel sanctions against Ruto.

“All we are asking the American government to do is, once you confirm all these concerns, help us, don’t have sanctions against the people of Kenya. Do the right thing and impose sanctions on William Ruto to never set foot in America. Kenya should not suffer because of one person.

“Let’s deal with a person. And I think if the government here can impose sanctions against him, that he cannot come to America and he cannot go to other states that work with America, our problems will be sorted. Instead of punishing the country because of the actions of one person,” he added.

If Gachagua was lucky enough to be invited to go provide information on Kenya’s president and ask them to impose sanctions, any such sanction will be on Kenya as a country because President Trump knows that once Kenyan citizens start to feel the bite of sanctions they would want to see President William Ruto dead or gone from office.

Maybe that is what Rigathi Gachagua is praying for but Kenyans can live with those sanctions but they definitely won’t want to live with or even see Gachagua after that, but it is his choice to make.

“Our request to the American government and the American people, please don’t punish Kenya because of the atrocities of William Ruto,” Gachagua stated.

The issue for the Senate Committee is whether Kenya still deserves the privileges that come with its non-NATO ally status, including military cooperation and intelligence sharing. Simply put the debate is not about William Ruto, it is about Kenya.

I don’t know which part of that Gachagua does not understand when he wants his country doomed with economic sanctions from the US. People are not sanctioned but countries are because that is what achieves the objectives of the sanctions.

Gachaguais comically asking Washington not to revoke the benefits that Kenya currently enjoys due to its strategic partnership with the US. That is the express purpose of the sanctions why the US Senate Committee has brought Kenya and not William Ruto into their agenda.

“Don’t withhold military aid to Kenya. Don’t withhold sharing of intelligence with Kenya. Don’t withdraw all those facilities that come without the privilege of being recognized as an ally of the NATO states,” Gachagua pleaded.

His comments come amid calls by key figures in the US Senate to review Kenya’s designation as a major non-NATO ally, a status it was granted during Ruto’s state visit to Washington.

Idaho Senator James Risch, who chairs the Foreign Relations Committee, is spearheading the recent push.

At the centre of the concerns is Kenya’s alleged involvement with Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF), a paramilitary group accused of war crimes and destabilising the region.

The dumbest thing Gachagua is doing now is talking to Kenyans in the US to talk to their leaders in the US to impose sanctions on Kenya. Those US leaders have no time for students and immigrants who don’t even have a chance to vote for the senators in those meetings.

Like for me here in Canada, my son votes because he is a citizen of this country, so if I wanted to go talk to the M.P in my area the young man is better off raising his own concerns because at least they will listen to him as a voter. Those politicians have no time for me and I have no time for them either.

There is no need for Gachagua to involve Kenyans living and working in the US in his political gimmicks. Gachagua should not put Kenyans in the US at war with anybody in the country because of his own delusions of grandeur when he is basically nothing in Kenya and he knows that very well.

If he Gachagua gets his sanctions imposed on the country where will those Kenyans learning in colleges out there get jobs. Will Trump give them employment and businesses in the US?

“Let me appeal to all of you, in your respective states, tell them about Kenya, tell them to support this bill when it comes to the floor of the House. Give them details of what is happening in Kenya so that they are well informed and a review is done,” Gachagua told Kenyans in the US.

The whole thing is about US Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairperson Jim Risch proposing an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026.

Typical US Senate Committee Meeting. How many immigrants can anybody see there. Good luck for Gachagua.

The Idaho Senator wants Kenya’s designation as a non-NATO ally reviewed by the US Secretary of State, in coordination with other officials, within 90 days, and a report submitted to Congress within 180 days.

Risch said the review will assess Kenya’s relationship with the US in countering violent extremism, achieving and maintaining peace and security in Sub-Saharan Africa, and in Haiti.

The review will also assess Kenya’s military and diplomatic engagements with China, Russia, and Iran.

Further, the review will scrutinize the relationships of the Kenyan Government and key officials of Kenya with violent extremist organizations, including the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and al-Shabaab.

Kenya was designated a non-NATO ally in June 2024 following President Ruto’s visit to the US

Unfortunately for Gachagua the US Senate Committee will not have any time or interest to invite some foreigner from Kenya who has no status in the US to tell them what to do.

If Gachagua was still the Deputy President and he volunteered secretly to go and confess about the things he was doing with his boss that may interest the US then he would be invited and given a visa and also provided asylum status in the US so he does not get his ass kicked when he goes back to Kenya.

In the US today there are many ex-leaders from Iran and Cuba who were allowed to come to the US and those people spend their entire life attacking and bad mouthing their countries of origin. For Gachagua it is too late.

If he was still the DP he would be a darling to the US sanction mongers. He should have talked to the US before he was impeached. Too bad for him now because that time is gone. He can’t even be a DP in Kenya anymore. He might get a refugee status in the US and try to get a real job.

Essentially Gachagua will not be given a chance to talk to the US Senate Committee hearing on Kenya because he is too little of a person for them to bother with. But the man has given the Kenyan voters all they needed to know about how poisonous he is for the country.

Even his fellow leaders in the opposition in the country now trying to be visible are pretty much embarrassed because Gachagua is killing the entire opposition group.

If President Ruto knew how crazy Gachagua would be in the US helping his government get more support he would have paid for Gachagua to spend six months in the US and provide him with food there. Gachagua wouldn’t even bother to come back to Kenya but just keep asking for more food.

Adongo Ogony is a Kenyan Human Rights Activist and a Writer who lives in Toronto, Canada