Editor's Review

Mwangi Wa Iria on Sunday sensationally claimed that Gachagua’s father was a cook for the whites during the colonial period and that’s how he got the District Officer (DO) position.

Political analyst Mutahi Ngunyi has on Monday, April 17 come to the defense of Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua after former Muranga Governor Mwangi Wa Iria claimed that he is not a son of Mau Mau.

Speaking during an Azimio rally on Sunday, Wa Iria sensationally claimed that the Deputy President’s father was a cook for the whites during the colonial period and that’s how he got the District Officer (DO) position.

“Gachagua says he is a son of Mau Mau, there is no child of a Mau Mau who was a District Officer (DO). His father was a cook for colonialists and that is how Gachagua was given the DO role,” said Wa Iria.

File image of Rigathi Gachagua

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Ngunyi has however defended the DP stating that he is a legit Mau Mau and that he did not get the DO position because his father was a cook.

“In defense of Gachagua. He studied political science at the University of Nairobi where I taught and Trained DOs from 1986. If he was in the class of 1987, he did not become a DO because his father was a cook. He is Mau Mau Legit. Mwangi Wairia is lying,” Ngunyi stated.