BY JAMES MBAKA
Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua has appealed to Kenyans to
remain peaceful irrespective of the outcome of the impeachment motion against
him.
The impeachment motion against the DP will be debated in the
National Assembly on Tuesday where MPs are expected to make a decision before
it is forwarded to the Senate for trial.
The DP has been allocated time to appear before the house on
Tuesday evening from 5pm to defend himself against 11 accusations before MPs
take a vote.
Gachagua who spoke on Sunday during a special church service
at the National Prayer Altar located in his Official Residence in Karen, said
Kenyans should not allow the outcome to divide them.
“I want to call upon the people of Kenya to remain peaceful and
to love one another and despite all these happenings, irrespective of the
outcome, the people of Kenya must remain peaceful and united,’’ Gachagua said.
The DP appealed to the people living in the cosmopolitan
Rift Valley region to continue living in peace and harmony irrespective of the
outcome of the impeachment motion against him.
“I want to ask our brothers and sisters in the Rift Valley,
where there are many communities who live there, to live this contest to
leaders, our people must stay together, they must continue loving one another,
they must continue marrying and getting children, they must continue doing
business together and they must always seek for peace and peaceful
co-existence,’’ Gachagua said.
Gachagua said the country’s peace should not be threatened
by the plan to remove him from office saying ‘’Kenya is bigger than anyone
else.’’
“We have enjoyed a lot of peace in this country and the
politics of the day should not in any way be used to threaten our peace and our
peaceful co-existence. Kenya is bigger than all of us, we have no other country
other than this one.”
Gachagua said his Sunday prayers were a depiction of history
repeating itself at the official residence of the deputy president as Kenya
Kwanza politicians gathered at the same National Prayer Altar to thank God
after the Supreme Court upheld President Ruto’s victory in 2022.
“These things that are happening are things that we have
seen before and during those very difficult moments that we had with President
Ruto, everything was against him, the state machinery, the deep state and all
manner of weapons and arsenal but he had God on his side,” he said.
“I am very persuaded that God the almighty that saw through
President William Ruto in very difficult circumstances has gone nowhere, that
God is still present, he is on the throne and his mighty is not in question.’’