Two leaders from Kiambu County have come out to reveal that former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua was the mastermind behind the violent invasion of former President Uhuru Kenyatta’s Northlands farm and the attack on Raila Odinga’s Spectre Gas Company.
If these claims are true, they expose the ugly face of Kenya’s politics — one where leaders use fear, intimidation, and organized chaos to silence opponents.
The events of March 2023 shocked the nation. Hundreds of goons, armed with crude weapons, stormed Uhuru Kenyatta’s farm along the Eastern Bypass, looting, cutting down trees, and stealing livestock. For hours, the police did nothing. At the same time, another group vandalized Raila Odinga’s Spectre gas firm in Industrial Area — smashing windows and attacking property associated with his family.
These were not coincidences; they were coordinated political attacks aimed at punishing and humiliating two of Kenya’s senior leaders.
If indeed Gachagua orchestrated these invasions, it reveals a leader driven by bitterness, not vision; by vengeance, not values. Such conduct is not only unethical but criminal — an assault on the dignity of a former Head of State and a threat to Kenya’s democratic fabric.
Uhuru Kenyatta, a former President, and Raila Odinga, a national leader, deserved the protection of the state — not to be targets of politically sponsored thuggery. For a sitting Deputy President to allegedly plan such an attack reflects a dangerous kind of politics that undermines peace and unity.
Now that the truth is emerging, Kenya must demand accountability. We cannot build a nation on intimidation and impunity. If Gachagua truly plotted these acts, he owes Uhuru Kenyatta, Raila Odinga, and the entire country an apology — and the law must take its full course.
Kenya deserves leaders who build bridges, not those who send goons to burn them.
