Journalists have the right and duty to advance as best as possible the interests of their own people and of the nation.
Gachagua’s attacks on Northern Kenya leaders is not rooted in any real fact or figure.
He has conjured an image in his head of northern Kenya politicians using proceeds of devolution and CDF to build Eastliegh and invest in Nairobi.
That may very well be true. Northern Kenya leaders are just as corrupt as central Kenya leaders.
What makes it okay for central kenya leaders to invest in Nairobi and not northern Kenya leaders?
Waititu from Gachagua’s party is in jail serving a 12 year sentence for corruption, proceeds of which were invested in NAIROBI. Gachagua is yet to condemn him and publicly distance himself to him.
Gachagua himself was accused and charged of graft and his case miraculously ended when they won the election in 2022.
He is a beneficiary of Kenya’s corrupt system. Otherwise today he would have served three of his fifteen year jail term!
Gachagua has this penchant for lecturing other communities as if they should not materially advance.
It is as if communal progress is the reserve of his ethnic group only.
The Governor of Wajir challenged Gachagua to name any Central Kenya county; and any county in Kenya for that matter, which has used devolution funds to construct 50km of standard-size bitumen roads?
Then there’s the Wajir MP who reminded Ndindi Nyoro that his constituency is 87 times larger than Kiharu. Representing a constituency that wide, with resources that limited, in a rugged world, requires a special kind of leadership.
Gachagua should have approached his audit of northern Kenya leaders with a clean hand but no, his hands are dirty.
To audit a people you must first audit yourself.
Does Gachagua believe [that] northern Kenya should develop, and, or; be developed, so as to become as corrupt and entitled as his own GEMA central?
Is corruption and entitlement to be left wholly for his own people? Look at their current misplaced bitterness? What’s causing that?
Northern Kenya Media Practitioners should be proud of themselves. In solidarity.
