- While speaking at Wakulima market, Gachagua dared those vouching for his removal from office to get out of hotel boardrooms and face him on the ground.
- He claimed his ouster was being plotted by unnamed government functionaries who were busy buying MPs to support the motion on the floor of the House.
Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua has said he will take it if and when his supposed removal from office sees the light of day.
The DP said he still holds firmly to his conviction that he’s only answerable to the people of Kenya who voted him into office and hold the power to equally remove him through the ballot.
Gachagua, however, said if members of Parliament – who he alleged have been bought to impeach him – go ahead and do exactly that, so be it.
“That is their decision. My position is very clear; I was elected by the people of Kenya. It’s the people of Kenya who will confirm whether I’m working well or not,” he said.
The DP was speaking Friday night during an interview on Citizen TV at his official residence in Karen, Nairobi.
While speaking at Wakulima market, Gachagua dared those vouching for his removal from office to get out of hotel boardrooms and face him on the ground.
He claimed his ouster was being plotted by unnamed government functionaries who were busy buying MPs to support the motion on the floor of the House.
During the Karen interview, the DP appeared resigned to his fate.
“If members of Parliament are persuaded, intimidated, coerced, to remove me from office, so be it. The matter ends there, it’s that simple,” he said.
“The issue that was discussed during the meeting held in Nyahururu that lasted the whole night was how to force a deputy president out of office. Most of them were coerced and intimidated into that meeting,” he added.
At the said meeting held Thursday last week, 48 Mt Kenya MPs endorsed Interior CS Kithure Kindiki as their link to President William Ruto on matter development.
“I have talked to the President several times and asked him to call his house to order. How can people be meeting at this time to discuss how to impeach a deputy president when the country needs a lot of work to be done? How insensitive can we be to Kenyans?”
The DP said on his part, he has no capacity to bribe, intimidate or coerce any Member of Parliament to defend him if and when the impeachment motion makes its way to Parliament.
“If they have issues with him that are constitutional, that meet the threshold and they want to go ahead and send him home for whatever crimes he has committed, there’s nothing Rigathi Gachagua can do about it. That is their purview,” he said.
The DP vowed to soldier on with his pro-people politics and dismissed allegations that he was working with the opponents of sitting MPs to frustrate their reelection bids in 2027.
“I’m not working with any opponent of anybody, what happens is that nature abhors vacuum. If I go to a meeting and a Member of Parliament doesn’t turn up, another character who is interested in leadership turns up, you cannot chase him away. I’m a people’s person,” he said.
“I have no candidate, I have not looked for anybody to decampaign anybody. What I cannot do for sure when I go round the country, I cannot stop Kenyans to accompany to wherever I’m going,” Gachagua added.