Saba Saba protest is on – DCP Youth leader Wanjiku Thiga vows after release
On Friday the Gachagua Party (DCP) officially announced that their party is in charge of Saba Saba rallies in 2025. Strangely enough that is the party of the same Rigathi Gachagua who slaughtered many Kenyans and shot and injured hundreds of people who were peacefully holding Saba Saba rallies on July 7, 2023.
It makes you want to throw up when you see some of the politicians now kneeling down for Gachagua namely Kalonzo Musyoka and Eugene Wamalwa were actually part of those rallies in 2023 and took their time to visit people shot and dying on orders from then DP Gachagua. It is pitiful that for opposition leaders who have no agenda for Kenyans sniffing Gachagua’s butt is good politics to them.
Gachagua Party operative Wanjiku Thiga in her press conference on their Saba Saba for Monday July 7, 2025 indicated she is going to lead their party leader Rigathi Gachagua and the likes of Kalonzo Musyoka, Martha Karua and Matiang’i assuming they gather a little courage to actually be part of the Saba Saba rallies.
“Monday bado mapambano. We are going to go for Saba Saba. If you are going to arrest us, arrest us now. But on Monday, at 8 am, you release us! We will be going to the streets again for the Saba Saba,” she declared defiantly.
Actually Wanjiku Thiga was just arrested again after her press conference a few hours after she came out of police custody and now the same police who released her have re-arrested her. At some point the things that the Ruto regime does to people in our country are acts of incredible stupidity and cruelty to Kenyans. Why arrest that young Kenyan who just got out of custody having spent days in the horror of police cells.
And I am sure many Kenyans are proud of her guts not to back off for the Ruto Police thugs to feel happy.
Thiga had been arrested earlier this week in Kamakis, Ruiru, and detained at Ruiru Police Station.
She was arraigned in Kiambu court and released on a Sh50,000 bond with a Sh200,000 surety.
Following her release, she denounced attempts to intimidate young people into supporting the ruling UDA party.
As for the Saba Saba of July 7, 2025 which is next monday I am inviting Wanjiku Thiga and her boss including other United opposition leaders like Kalonzo Musyoka, Eugene Wamalwa and Fred Matiang’i to look at what their new hero Gachagua did just two years ago to activists, politicians and every Kenyan who came out on Saba Saba day July 7, 2023. If they are honest leaders of the opposition they should ask Rigathi Gachagua how many Kenyans he killed or injured with gun shots on that day.
History is a stubborn thing and Kenyans are not idiots to follow the same person who killed so many of them on the same Saba Saba day on July 7, 2023. If Saba Saba rallies are the only hope for Rigathi Gachagua to put himself as a leader for Kenyans then he is already dead and buried like those Kenyans he killed in 2023.
Kenyans Want to Know the Truth about Ruto and His DP Violence on Citizens
By Adongo Ogony July 26, 2023
Here are just some little pieces of what that terrible killer, Rigahti Gachagua, then DP did with his boss William Ruto did to Kenyans and they were hideous crimes against the country and its people.
It is quite insulting to Kenyans that one of the biggest perpetrators of those crimes is now the leader of the United Opposition ready to lead the Saba Saba Rallies on July 7, 2025. I know people get converted from being sinners to become Christians but how do we convert murderers of Kenyans to start fighting for human rights in our country or do they just need more power to commit the same crimes at a bigger scale.
Here we go:
Raila and Azimio did a great thing for our country after July 7, 2023. They took the nation to see the violence of the Ruto regime on Kenyans. Thank you very much. Kenyans could the ones shot to death by Ruto and his crazy DP Gachagua. Many Kenyans were killed and buried fighting for their country on that day.
Here is the question. Who shot all these people and which weapons were they using to do so much harm to Kenyans.
And Kenyans have seen Ruto and Gachagua had special killer mobs with foreign cars like this from South Sudan. Our country is under siege from William, his DP and their killing machine.
This is Respect For Victims of State Terrorism During Saba Saba 2023
By Adongo Ogony August 12, 2023
There are so many stories out there for Kenyans. We will just leave those stories in pictures.
Here is what our publication, Hivi Punde, put together when Ruto and Gachagua went on a riot killing Kenyans in 2023 during Saba Saba rallies.
Great Day For Ruto and His DP As They Turn Kenya into A Past Tense and A Ghost Country
By Adongo Ogony July 20, 2023
In July 2023 it looked Ruto and Gachagua were promising the whole world that there will be NO Kenya under their watch. They were making Kenya “Past Tense” as our good friend, Wahome Mutahi, would say.
Horrible police shootings and violence in Mathare in Nairobi City
Sometimes even being loaded with two guns is not enough.
The media reports were not very clear. Four protesters were injured in the Mathare area of the capital, Nairobi, according to a police officer who spoke on condition of anonymity as he was not authorized to speak to the media.
The Associated Press witnessed people shot in the shoulder, in the stomach and others shot in the leg in Mathare.
In Nairobi’s Kangemi area, health records worker Alvin Sikuku told the AP that two young men had been brought into the Eagle Nursing Home clinic. “Police are using live bullets,” he said.
One man was shot in the back and severely wounded, and the other was shot in the leg. “We don’t yet know if they were protesting or just walking by,” Sikuku said.
In the city of Nakuru, Nakuru Referral Hospital Medical Superintendent James Waweru confirmed that four people came in with gunshot wounds, two of them shot in the abdomen, one in the chest and another one in the leg. A fifth person had been cut and wounded.
Businesses and schools in Nairobi were closed as police used tear gas and water cannons to disperse protesters.
The Kenya Medical Association said its members had attended to “hundreds of injured Kenyans and witnessed tens of fatalities” as a result of protests, and access to health facilities was limited for patients and workers, leading to increased mortality.
Down in Nyanza the police were on top of everything. Early reports are that some people were shot dead including 3 in Kisumu shot by the police and over 14 in hospital with bullet wounds.
Kitale looked very busy.
In Kisii Town, women do their thing to support Azimio rallies and it is great to see them happy and having a good time. That is what happens when the police and government militias are not shooting demonstrators. People there are doing their business as usual and the demonstrators are very peaceful and funny.
What is wrong with that? This is bad because it makes Ruto and Gachagua very mad. They were asking themselves why do they buy guns for the police when Azimio supporters are dancing in the streets. They should be dead as far they were concerned. These were people in power my friends.
Biashara Street in Nakuru taken over by armed police and burning tire
Business hawker trying to sell his goods to journalists as everything else is shut down in Nyamakima in Nairobi.
Mombasa Azimio supporters having prayers. Thank you.
‘Choices have concequences, time to feel the heat is now’ – ODM tells Kenyans
ODM party leader Raila Odinga addressing a rally at Kamukunji Grounds on Tuesday, June 27, 2023 in preparation for the Saba Saba Day events for that year.
The Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) party urged Kenyans to remain strong as a majority of the citizens continue to grapple with the high cost of living.
“Good morning fellow Kenyans. Someone once said, choices have consequences. Time to feel the heat is now. The heat is coming fast and furious,” the statement read in part.
The party, however, told Kenyans to keep their heads up, saying, “We shall one day overcome it. Let’s keep our heads up, our feelers on the ground and our hearts stronger,” ODM added.
NAIROBI, KENYA – JULY 07: People take part in a demonstration held against the rising cost of living, in
Police at Kibuye area along Kisumu Kakamega road during Saba Saba protests in Kisumu on Friday, July 7, 2023.
Right now United Opposition is very busy in Western Kenya which is a good thing for them and they have gone to a couple of counties including Kakamega, Vihiga, Bungoma and Busia.
The startling thing about their campaign rallies is that the United Opposition has reduced everything to their usual “Ruto Must Go” ritual and they have met people in relatively normal crowds in abrupt rallies like the one they are having down there.
The boys like Kalonzo Musyoka, Uegene Wamalwa and Fred Matiangi are reduced to yelling the usual slogans.
Gachagua: Haraaambeee
Crowd: Wantam
Kalonzo: Haraaambeee
Crowd: Wantam
Matiang’i: Haraaambeee
Crowd: Wantam
This goes on forever and then it is the turn for Gachagua to take the whole platform
Gachagua: Mwizi Aendeeee
Crowd: Aendeeeeeee
Gachagua : Muaji Aendeeeeeeee
Crowd: Aendeeeeeeeeeee
Gachagua: Kasongo Aendeeeeeeee
Crowd: Aendeeeeeeeeeeeee
At some point you feel sorry for the people who came to those rallies expecting opposition leaders who want to go to State House to help Kenyans, would actually say even just one word about what they intend to achieve for Kenyans.
What do they are they going do to improve agriculture, education for young Kenyans, getting jobs for the youth of Kenya, creating business opportunities for Kenyan people including the young and Kenyan women who are having a hard time to make a living and so many other issues of importance to the Kenyan people.
How about fighting for voter registration for the youth in Kenya instead of holding the new IEBC commissioners hostage until Kalonzo Musyoka can pick those IEBC commissioners. They know that is not going to happen but what do they care. They think they can kick out President Ruto from office with demonstrations in Nairobi if only they could get to State House and kick Ruto’s ass out of office. Good luck with that.
Then Gachagua comes with a story to tell Kenyans hoping that this will cheer people after shouting the slogans the whole day.
In Kakamega Rigathi Gachagua had what he thought was a sweet story for the crowd and narrated his gig with a big smile in his face.
“I have experienced him; this man is a liar beyond measure. Now I’ve come to listen to the ground. I’ve come to ask for forgiveness. This Ruto is disturbing Kenya. The person who helped him to become president was I and the people of Mt Kenya.
The suffering you’ve endured, that’s my fault. I’ve come to ask for forgiveness. All this trouble in Kenya, I brought it, but just as I brought it, I will also fix it,” Gachagua told the people there who were trying to figure out why that story was important to them
What Gachagua was telling the poor folks in Kakamega is what has been the foundation of his entire politics. He is telling them and also warning his co-leaders that Mt. Kenya, which he owns full scale, are the people who must decide who a Kenyan president can be.
Basically Gachagua is telling the United Opposition leaders that they have no choice but to choose him as their presidential candidate never mind that him having been impeached from his job as DP, he cannot hold any public office including that of a Sub-Chief in Wamunyoro.
Together apart: The growing Ruto-Gachagua cold war
Then on their way to Bungoma the entourage had some problems with some youth disrupting the road. One would have expected Kalonzo to handle that like he did on their way to Kakamega when Kalonzo told Kenyans that some goons were sent to disrupt them but they were kicked away by United Opposition goons who Kalonzo said stood tall and were like razor blades. That is our new Kenya, don’t lough now.
Anyway on the road to Bungoma troubles, Gachagua took care of business addressing the leaders and the whole entourage as well as the disruptive youth on the road. Gachagua had some strange things to say which is normal for him.
According to the media the Opposition’s motorcade, comprising Rigathi Gachagua (DCP leader), Kalonzo Musyoka (Wiper), Fred Matiang’i (former Interior CS), George Natembeya (Trans Nzoia Governor), Justin Muturi (former Attorney General) among others, on their way to Bungoma when rowdy youth pelted their vehicles with stones.
According to those reports the commotion caused a traffic snarl-up as the Opposition leaders’ team tried to restore order.
Following the incident, the leaders proceeded to engage with the residents, proceeding with the clarion call for President William Ruto’s exit from office and Gachagua had this to say to the gathered crowd.
“Hapa ni Wantam! Kasongo aende asiende. Mimi na Muturi tumetumwa na watu wa mlima, pale mlimani tumefungia Kasongo. Kifunguo ikona Justin Muturi. Funguo ikipotea, utajibu watu wa Bungoma,” Gachagua stated.
What else is new from Rigathi Gachagua. That is the man and he tells Kenyans everyday where his soul rests. Maybe that is Kenya’s next president. Don’t cry now.
“If I had listened to my aunt, we would not be in this mess,” said Gachagua. “She warned me that Ruto would first persecute me, then my children, and eventually my community. I didn’t believe her then. But today, it is all unfolding exactly as she said Gachagua told the mourners.
He further alleged that a secret directive was issued last Saturday at State House, where Ruto allegedly met regional police commanders and ordered a crackdown targeting members of the community.
“Our greatest concern is the decision made last Saturday at State House, where he summoned all police commanders and ordered an onslaught and persecution of our community”
So even at the funeral for his aunt Gachagua oozes tribalism from head to toe and Kenyans will have to accept that the man breaths and eats tribalism which is going to take him nowhere in Kenya politics and he will be sent to rest at Wamunyoro for the rest of his life. Bye Bye Mzee. Poa sasa. Pole sana.
Adongo Ogony is a Kenyan Human Rights Activist and a Writer who lives in Toronto, Canada
