Kindiki, Murkomen, Kihika slam Gachagua’s violence remarks
Deputy President Kithure Kindiki has urged Kenyans to reject voices predicting violence in the 2027 General Election.
Speaking in Teso North, Busia County, Kindiki assured the public that the government will not allow any kind of violence in the period leading up to and after the 2027 general election.
“Let no one scare you. Those prophesying doom are unpatriotic and politically immature. We must never again go back to those dark days,” he said.
“Not in 2027, not at any other time in the future. Our country learnt hard and painful lessons from the 2007/2008 events. Never again.”
His remarks were a direct attack on former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua, who earlier in the week, on Obinna TV, warned that if the upcoming polls were rigged, the aftermath would be worse than the 2007/08 post-election violence that left over a thousand people dead and thousands displaced.
“With the mood in the country, if the IEBC messes with the elections, there will be no country here. I want to tell you that 2007 will look like a Christmas party,” Gachagua had stated.
“I want to tell those commissioners to be Kenyans and to be patriotic, and not to attempt to force William Ruto on the people of Kenya. It will not work. The people of Kenya will not accept it. People want change, and they are ready for change.”
“We cannot be in a perpetual campaign mood. This is the season to work. We are outperforming even Ethiopia and Angola. Let’s stay focused,” he said, citing progress in stabilising the economy and a stronger shilling.
Cabinet Secretary for Roads and Transport, Kipchumba Murkomen, speaking at a funeral in Matisi, Kitale, described Gachagua’s remarks as “dangerous and deeply irresponsible.”
“People lost their loved ones. Some never recovered. Nobody should threaten to drag this country into bloodshed because of personal political frustrations. You don’t burn a nation to get into office,” Murkomen said.
Murkomen added that the country would not revisit that dark history.
“We learnt the hard way. That wound runs deep. We won’t let it open again.”
Nakuru Governor Susan Kihika — from one of the counties hardest hit in 2007 — did not mince her words.
“This is extremely reckless. Coming from a region that bore the brunt of the chaos, I find it unacceptable. Gachagua must stop imagining his political battles are national emergencies,” she said.
“There comes a time when a country is bigger than an individual. Gachagua, that time is now. We will not bleed again — not for any politician.”
Kabuchai MP Majimbo Kalasinga added his voice, warning against incitement: “No Kenyan will rise against another over tribal nonsense. We’ve grown wiser. We will not fight for power brokers.”
Instead of just talking about the massacres by Kibaki and the Kenya police in 2007, Gachagua should have told Kenyans what he did for President Moi in Molo as the D.O in 1992 when Kenya had its first multi-party elections.
The message of hope for our Nation and the people of Kenya remains strong to us all. The cause is on unbaited. Have a blessed Sunday Fellow Kenyans.
Rigathi Gachagua was Molo D.O in 1992, where 5,000 people were killed and 75,000 displaced because Gchagua took action against them. So when Gachagua talks about mass murder of Kenyans he knows exactly whet he is talking about because he has directly done it and in fact Moi gave him a big award after he carried out the mass murders in Molo.
Incidentally all the people killed and displaced in Molo by Rigathi Gachagua were Kikuyus and they were being killed because they did not vote for Moi in that election. This guy knows what he is talking about but it is going to fail miserably. The Wamunyoro Party is a dead thing and that is why none of the opposition leaders even bothered to go for the launching by Gachagua.
The miserable guy cannot even be a D.O after the impeachment. Pastor Dorcas, Gachagua’s wife, used to talk a lot about boychild trying to help young kids in trouble. Now she is going to have a man-child in her hands. Good luck with that. The great thing with Gachagua is that the more he opens his mouth the better because everybody just gets sick of him. Keep it going Rigathi, please.
And the rest of the Kenyan opposition is just desperate for publicity and they cannot even talk to Kenyans about what is next. Martha Karua is in Tanzania doing nothing and Kalonzo is just Kalonzo. Bure kabisa. What else is new?
Karua deported, accuses government of ‘collaboration’
Lawyer Martha Karua addresses journalists after arriving at JKIA following her deportation from Tanzania on May 18, 2025.
Lawyer Martha Karua has criticized the government for doing very little to save her and two other human rights defenders, Lynn Ngugi and Gloria Kimani, from deportation in Tanzania.
One thing Martha Karua should at least know is that you cannot be deported from a country where you do not live. You can be denied entrance and that is not deportation. Just go back home.
“I spoke to the ambassador of Kenya to Tanzania through a phone at the Kenya Airways desk. He told me he was in Kenya and sought to speak to me through the airline desk. He said they were looking into it,” narrated Karua.
“If Kenya has not issued any protest note then they are collaborating in the deportation of an East African seeking to visit another country in the region. Our leaders are collaborating to oppress us,” she said.
Adongo Ogony is a Kenyan Human Rights Activist and a Writer who lives in Toronto, Canada
