One scary thing with William Ruto and his KK government is that Kenyans are now made to think these people have no idea how actually to run a government.
Maybe they were good campaigners for the election but in two years Kenyans get a sense that governing a country is a nightmare for them and it is worse for the country in every sense.
It is like President William Ruto wakes up at State House and asks himself what the heck he is doing there.
Right now according to latest news, Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua has seemingly shut down ongoing conversations about the Mt. Kenya kingship, declaring former President Uhuru Kenyatta as the region’s undisputed leader.
That is his choice and he is entitled to that. Kenyans know he is right and what they bring to the national table is more important to all of us, including those Uhuru and Gachagua represent.
DP Gachagua, speaking during an exclusive interview on Citizen TV on Friday night, made the declaration as he reminisced the electioneering period during which he and Uhuru did not see eye-to-eye.
This due to the fact that Uhuru had chosen to back the presidential candidate of former Prime Minister Raila Odinga, while Gachagua had placed all his chips on William Ruto – who eventually clinched the top seat.
According to the deputy president, however, he abused and ridiculed Uhuru during that time over his decision to back Mr. Odinga, whom he had all along told them was a bad person, but all of a sudden wanted them to receive warmly.
Gachagua went on to state that President Ruto, after also convincing them not to look Mr. Odinga’s way, has now turned back and allowed him into government and is singing his praises – the very same thing Uhuru did.
He therefore went ahead to state that Uhuru may have been right all along, adding that he was forced to swallow the humble pie and tender an apology to the former President and his family for all the insults he hurled at them during the campaigns.
“Myself, and my political base, the Mt. Kenya region, have no problem whatsoever with Raila Odinga. In fact, what the people are saying, and it’s very interesting, is that: ‘A Mt. Kenya king does not pronounce himself twice on a matter.’ Our son Uhuru Kenyatta had pronounced himself on this matter, so that pronouncement carries the day. As we stand today, me and the mountain people are quite happy with Raila Odinga,” he said.
“Myself and the mountain people, feel very bad that we punished Uhuru Kenyatta. We demeaned him, we told him off, we embarrassed him for telling us that Raila Odinga is a good man. And we were very brutal with him, and we really hammered him.”
He added: “It has come to our knowledge that it was very unfair, because his crime was to tell us that Raila Odinga is a good man. Now that Ruto has also said Raila is a good man, that is why I apologized to Uhuru Kenyatta and his family…and I owed him an apology, on behalf of the community. Because what he had told us is what the President has told us, we had no business fighting, disrespecting and humiliating him. Uhuru Kenyatta is the undisputed king of the mountain.”
Then the Rigathi revelations to the media continue:
I was removed from WhatsApp group managing Ruto’s diary — Gachagua
Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua lamented of being removed from President William Ruto’s WhatsApp group diary.
The DP said that the move to remove him and some of his staff has made it difficult to work efficiently.
He cited missing important presidential events due to a lack of information about them.
The DP added that if he is not present in any presidential function, it is because he is not aware of it.
He, however, said that he would find the right time to talk to the president and sort out the issue.
“I always align my diary with that of the President, all the time, and as long as I’m aware of that function, I align accordingly. Sometimes if I’m not aware, I’m unable to align because I also have my programme,” he said during an interview with Citizen TV.
“We have a WhatsApp group diary for the President where I’m there; my Chief of Staff is there, and all his issues are there, so we align. About a week ago, we were removed from that diary, so we are not able to follow exactly what is going on, we are unable to align.”
“It is only right and fair that I have access to the Presidential Diary so that I align my diary with his diary because he is the boss, but if I’m in the dark and I don’t know what is happening, I’m not an angel to know where the President would be at what time, then it is not right.”
Gachagua: If MPs are coerced to remove me from office, so be it
“That is their decision. My position is very clear; I was elected by the people of Kenya.”
Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua also said he will take it if and when his supposed removal from office sees the light of day.
The DP said he still holds firmly to his conviction that he’s only answerable to the people of Kenya who voted him into office and hold the power to equally remove him through the ballot.
Gachagua, however, said if members of Parliament – who he alleged have been bought to impeach him – go ahead and do exactly that, so be it.
“That is their decision. My position is very clear; I was elected by the people of Kenya. It’s the people of Kenya who will confirm whether I’m working well or not,” he said.
The DP was speaking Friday night during an interview on Citizen TV at his official residence in Karen, Nairobi.
While speaking at Wakulima market, Gachagua dared those vouching for his removal from office to get out of hotel boardrooms and face him on the ground.
He claimed his ouster was being plotted by unnamed government functionaries who were busy buying MPs to support the motion on the floor of the House.
During the Karen interview, the DP appeared resigned to his fate.
“If members of Parliament are persuaded, intimidated, coerced, to remove me from office, so be it. The matter ends there, it’s that simple,” he said.
“The issue that was discussed during the meeting held in Nyahururu that lasted the whole night was how to force a deputy president out of office. Most of them were coerced and intimidated into that meeting,” he added.
At the said meeting held Thursday last week, 48 Mt Kenya MPs endorsed Interior CS Kithure Kindiki as their link to President William Ruto on matter development.
“I have talked to the President several times and asked him to call his house to order. How can people be meeting at this time to discuss how to impeach a deputy president when the country needs a lot of work to be done? How insensitive can we be to Kenyans?”
The DP said on his part, he has no capacity to bribe, intimidate or coerce any Member of Parliament to defend him if and when the impeachment motion makes its way to Parliament.
“If they have issues with him that are constitutional, that meet the threshold and they want to go ahead and send him home for whatever crimes he has committed, there’s nothing Rigathi Gachagua can do about it. That is their purview,” he said.
I address rallies in Kikuyu to be understood better – Gachagua
Then just before the weekend, Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua had a big fight with the Nairobi Governor Johnson Sakaja which was totally uncalled for because the governor is already talking with the market traders in CBD to solve ongoing problems of running businesses in the streets in the CBD.
The DP was speaking on Friday night after a daylong interaction with traders at Gikomba, OTC, Nyamakima, Tea Room, and Marikiti in Nairobi.
In a fiery exchange of words, Nairobi Governor Johnson Sakaja responded sharply to Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua following the latter’s visit to the Marikiti Market earlier today.
Gachagua spoke for a considerable time in his mother tongue, sparking criticism from Nairobi Governor Johnson Sakaja.
“I have for long avoided responding to the Deputy President’s tribal diatribe, but today’s activities leave me no choice,” Sakaja said in a statement on X.
“This morning, in a misinformed tribal diatribe, and while speaking in the vernacular in the heart of our nation’s capital, you have chosen to use falsehoods to incite traders against the measures we are taking,” he added.
But speaking at his official residence in Karen during an interview with Citizen TV’s Sam Gituku, Gachagua responded to the Nairobi governor.
“When I looked for votes for Governor Sakaja, I spoke in my mother tongue, he didn’t have a complaint. He was quite happy, he was all smiles. When I was looking for votes for President William Ruto in meetings where the majority are people from my community, I spoke in my mother tongue,” he said.
“I don’t know why people have a problem, now that elections have been won when I speak to people in the language that I spoke to them when we were looking for votes. What was good then is still good today.”
So that war within KK and UDA leaders is going on but the worst thing to happen to President Ruto this week was when his internet little one who is supposed to run his brain was literally thrown out of Bomas by UDA members in their uniforms. That was as sad as it gets for President William Ruto and his boy Dennis Itumbi.
As all Kenyans know by now, head of Creative Economy in the Executive Office of the President Dennis Itumbi was heckled by university students during a meeting organized by the UDA party.
During the meeting held at the Bomas of Kenya on Friday, September 20, Itumbi was keen on defending the government’s move to hand over JKIA to Adani Group which almost all Kenyans are furious about.
The meeting attendants were not pleased by Itumbi’s defence of the government’s deal with Adani.
Owing to the disruption Itumbi urged the students to give him time to explain himself and why the Ruto government is having a deal with the Adani Group to take over JKIA for 30 years. However, his pleas fell on deaf ears.
Forget that this was the worst possible humiliation for William Ruto’s little guy Itumbi and the president himself, the message Kenyans sent here and they have been doing that for a while now is that the deal to hand over JKIA to Adani is dead and deader.
It will never happen and if President Ruto has the guts to bring this scam “investment” to Kenya then forget about the Gen Z rebellion, millions of Kenyans will come to the streets to stop them. William Ruto should know that by now and so does Adani Group.
They all know the deal is dead and it has been killed by Kenyans. End of story. What happens to the Ruto government after the Adani Group deal is dead is another story and chapter for the country and it is coming in a few months from now.
