Uncertainty looms Gachagua’s political future following a Saturday night meeting at the Nairobi home of a Cabinet Secretary nominee.
A Sources who attended the meeting told The Standard that the attendants resolved to raise a motion of impeachment against Gachagua, accusing him of gross violation of the Constitution and gross misconduct.
The host is from Mt Kenya. The night meeting brought together 21 MPs from the region.
The said leaders accuses the DP of insubordination of his boss, President William Ruto, and for undermining the presidency owing to his divisive tribal and shareholding narrative.
According to sources, the cabinet nominee told the MPs that the President was fed up with his deputy for “being irresponsible and holding him hostage.”
Gachagua was further accused of blackmail and of always demanding an unreasonable share of appointments in government for his community at the expense of other communities. “Some of the examples cited in the meeting included his insistence that former Kenya Revenue Authority Commissioner General Githii Mburu’s position had to be retained by someone from the Mt Kenya region in a move that, the CS nominee told us, made Gachagua look parochial and tribal,” an MP who attended the meeting said. The MP said the impeachment would be done after the constitution of the Cabinet.
Another MP said the meeting was meant to prepare them psychologically, and they were informed that since ODM had come on board, it would be easy and possible to have the numbers.
