Githunguri Member of Parliament (MP) Gathoni Wamuchomba has claimed that legislators are always coerced to vote for a law in Parliament.

Speaking during an interview on Monday January 27, 2025, Wamuchomba alleged that MPs usually receive calls from State House or party leaders on key issues before voting on the floor of the House. 

The Githunguri MP maintained that Kenyan legislators operate from “cages of political patronage, of being called when you are on the floor of the House and being told how to vote.”

“Every politician will say they are not in that cage but I can confess that no single vote happens in Parliament without them receiving a call from the Majority Leader, Majority Whip, State House,” said Wamuchomba.

“This happened during (Rigathi Gachagua’s)impeachment, we saw them during the Finance Bill 2024,” she added. 

At the same time, Wamuchomba said that Gachagua’s war on the government is as a result of being free from political allegiance.

“That is the cage Rigathi Gachagua was in and now that he is out of that cage he is able to speak. Some of us are very conflicted because we are never comfortable in the cage,” she narrated.