DP Gachagua Goes After Leaders Over Breaking Protocol In Ruto's Event

Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua on Monday, September 25 called out government officials for breaking protocol during the flagging-off of Community Health Promoters kits at Uhuru Park, Nairobi.

The deputy president expressed his displeasure with the officials for using the state podium which is meant for President William Ruto.

Gachagua however said he will pardon them since President Ruto is the one who invited them to speak from the state podium.

"I have chosen to speak from here because there has been a serious breach of protocol. The state podium is reserved for the head of state but I want to exonerate all those who have spoken there because it is the President himself who invited them to speak from there and breached protocol,” he said.

The DP explained that he declined to use the President’s podium because he was once a uniformed government officer.

“As a man who was in uniform I politely declined the invitation by the president to break protocol, I will speak from here,” Gachagua explained.

He further said President Ruto has no problem with breach of protocol since he came from humble beginnings and was propelled to the top seat by hustlers.

"Those of us who work around the President have a very task of overseeing the transformation of a hustler into a President,” Gachagua stated.

“That is why the President is breaching protocol because the hustler nation propelled one of them to the State House. It is very difficult to get the hustler out of him and that is why he is very comfortable to use the state podium."

Some of the leaders who used the state podium include; Prime Cabinet Secretary Musalia Mudavadi, Health CS Susan Nakhumicha, Nairobi Governor Johnson Sakaja, Kirinyaga Governor Anne Waiguru and Tharaka Nithi Governor Muthomi Njuki.