Tuesday, June 11, 2024 –Nyeri County Governor Mutahi Kahiga has accused President William Ruto of inciting Rigathi Gachagua against former President Uhuru Kenyatta and Raila Odinga.
Speaking in a church service held on Sunday June 9, Kahiga claimed that President William Ruto, as the boss in this government, has been sending his deputy to disrespect former president Uhuru Kenyatta so that to create artificial divisions in Mt. Kenya Region.
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He also claimed that he is the one who coined the shareholding mantra which Gachagua picked from there.
Ruto Setting up Gachagua
“Gachagua was with Uhuru as a loyal man and has remained with now his boss Ruto but, unfortunately, his boss has been sending him to abuse other people like Uhuru.
“He also sent his deputy to speak about shareholding in their government only for him(Ruto) to go to Kisumu to call Gachagua a primitive man who preaches divisive politics,” claimed Kahiga in a clip send to our Kenyawide.com news des..
A visibly angry Kahiga added that the president, during campaigns, used to dupe Mt. Kenya with nice words from the Bible every weekend; what he has since stopped doing and, instead, decided to chest thumb.
“He used to tell us mwathaini aroshio every Sunday. Today we don’t know who has moved close to him because he has since changed that good behaviour. Why can’t he continue being the man we knew before all these?” he posed.
The Governor further sought to know why Western Region was being given a huge development share and attention than Mt. Kenya which gave Ruto alot of votes.
Shift From Mt Kenya.
He described this a deliberate shift of attention from Mt. Kenya to Western which was recently given a sh 117 billion waiver sugar cane debt.
“When talking equity and equality we mean it. Western was recently given 117b waiver on cane. We were not us who ate the canes. For us, we have only been given sh 9b.
“We gave president 272,507 votes in Nyeri alone and across the country we gave him 3 million votes. Why take 117b to Western which only gave you 600,00 votes? We are demanding what is rightfully ours,” further charged Kahiga.
The politician who is an ally of deputy President Rigathi Gachagua, said Mt. Kenya is only demanding some respect from the government they voted for to a man.
But speaking a week ago, Cabinet Secretary CS Public Service Moses Kuria, in contrast, asked DP Gachagua to use his office powers to develop Central Region.
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He challenged Gachagua to use the many cabinet secretaries in the executive and MPs from Central Kenya who are heading important key Parliamentary Committees to pull resources to Central Region.
Majority leader in the National Assembly, Kimani Ichung’wah, in a different public event, also told off the DP by accusing him pf orchestrating divisions through vernacular media stations around Mt Kenya area.