I Have Become a Beggar Since I Became Deputy President - DP Gachagua

Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua has resorted to seeking divine intervention to have the challenges bedeviling Kenyans solved. 

Speaking on Saturday, January 7 after having a morning hike toward Mt Kenya, Rigathi claimed that Kenyans are grappling with hunger, drought, and other calamities due to their iniquities.

He said that he has had to become a beggar before the international community so that the starving Kenyans can have food.

Due to this, he opted to pray while facing Mt Kenya for God's intervention.

"I came to this mountain because it is at a high altitude and we consider it is not far away from heaven where our God stays," he said.

The deputy president also prayed for the health and wisdom of President William Ruto whom he said God anointed to lead Kenya.

Top of Rigathi's prayer included the hunger that over 4 million Kenyans have had to grapple with for a time now.

"I came here with three prayers. First and foremost, I have prayed he gives us rain. We have had five failed seasons and our people are staring at hunger. More than 4.3 million Kenyans are staring at starvation, and more than 2,500 livestock are dead," he said.

He stated that it would take God's intervention to have the children salvaged from malnutrition and lactating mothers from breastfeeding challenges.

Owing to Kenyans' hardworking nature, the deputy president pleaded with God to bring rain so that there could be a bumper harvest to deal with the prevalent food insecurity.

Rigathi detested the fact that he has to mobilise for support from the international community, a trend he says is humiliating.

"I have prayed that God heals our land and forgives our sins and give us abundant rain so that we can have a bounty harvest. We are hardworking people but we are stuck because we have no rain. I have made a personal prayer that since I became the deputy president I have become a beggar.

"I spend all my time begging for food. It is humiliating to me. I spend all my time with foreigners, including those who colonised us, begging for food. I have no choice because we can not let our people die," he said.

The deputy president has been making the morning hikes on the sidelines of the Cabinet retreat in Nyeri which he is attending alongside the president and high-ranking government officials.