Why DP Gachagua Has Warned Kiambu and Meru Governors

Meru governor Kawira Mwangaza and her Kiambu counterpart Kimani Wamatangi have been put on notice over constant wrangles in their respective counties. 

Speaking in Nyeri County on Saturday, September 9, Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua observed that the squabbles impede development in the said counties.  

The president and his deputy were in the county to launch various projects as well as to open UDA party offices.

To exhaustively tap into national government benefits, Gachagua called on the counties from Rift Valley and Mt Kenya to embrace unity. 

He detested the happenings in Meru where Governor Mwangaza is not on good terms with her deputy Isaac Mutuma, as Wamatangi faces off with MCAs who have threatened to impeach him.

Gachagua said he had sounded a warning to Kericho governor Erick Mutai who had not been seeing eye to eye with his deputy Lilly Ngok, and that he would do the same to Mwangaza and Wamatangi.

"I warned Kericho leaders. Mt Kenya and Rift Valley are political backyards for President William Ruto. We don't want squabbles in these two regions. This is the time to unite and speak in one voice to benefit from this government," he stated. 

The deputy president who was visibly vexed mentioned that the leaders would be ousted in the event they shun unity.

"We cannot accept these two regions to have unending squabbles. We will ask the voters to send them away. We are asking leaders in Kericho, Kiambu and Meru to stop squabbles," he said. 

Earlier this year, Gachagua found himself on the receiving end after claiming the government would only benefit those who voted for it.

He referred to them as "shareholders".

Quarters including the opposition came out to lash at him over what they said was a deputy president advancing rhetoric of division contrary to the aspect of unity as stipulated in the presidency as a symbol of national unity.