Nyeri Governor Mutahi Kahiga has launched a scathing attack against National Assembly Majority Leader Kimani Ichung’wah, faulting him for kickstarting a campaign against Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua.
Ichung’wah, Governor Kahiga asserts, is drunk with the delegated power he has courtesy of the Kenya Kwanza Government, and that he should rethink his ways.
“Kimani Ichungwah is suffering the problem of power. You know, they say power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Ichungwah and Gachagua were buddies, you know he married in Gachagua’s area here in Mathira. But right now they are each protecting their turf,” Kahiga said in an exclusive interview with TV47 on Friday, September 20 morning. “Ichungwah is in a privileged position because he is the leader of majority and he has close proximity to the president. He is protecting that tuff, and he wouldn’t want anyone to come close and mess it up.”
Kahiga, a strong ally of DP Gachagua, added: “He even said that these days he talks to the president with his hands in his pockets. This tells you that it’s power that has gotten into him. But he needs to be reminded that a balloon with a little pin gets deflated. He needs to know that there has been others before him, their fate is written all over books, let him be careful with that power knowing that it is power that has just been delegated by President Ruto. Let him work with Gachagua.”
In the recent past, there has been talks of a possible impeachment motion against the second in command in the offing, speculations that Kahiga says do not trouble Gachagua’s camp a bit.
“Impeachment against Rigathi Gachagua? Bring it on! The mountain will be watching! We will be watching. For every action there will be a reaction. You cannot do that to our son and expect us to sit pretty. Rigathi Gachagua is not where he was when we elected him, he was a nobody then…today, we are behind him except for 48 MPs. I can speak with confidence that everybody else is behind Gachagua.”
The county boss is, however, blaming President Ruto for allowing people close to him to disrespect his deputy president.
“I blame President William Ruto for this. Ruto told us publicly that he will not allow what he went through as Uhuru Kenyatta’s deputy to happen to his deputy, but now he has allowed Rigathi Gachagua to be disrespected.”
