Impeached Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua has pleaded with government officials not slow down in the fight against alcoholism in Mt Kenya and other regions of the country.
Gachagua said his war against illicit brews should not lose momentum, even if he is hounded out of office.
“We should not let our boys fail to grow to be real men. Our boys are in danger, our seed carriers,” he said.
He regretted that alcoholism started to creep back in Mt Kenya region when his woes in government begun.
“I did a lot to fight alcoholism, for two years because it's our house that it has been finishing. But since the time they started fighting and undermining me, alcoholism is back. It has started finishing our house again, and just know it's not me being fought, it's the region,” he added.
Speaking in Limuru at the memorial service of Mwalimu Geoffrey Murugami on Wednesday, Gachagua asked chiefs, assistant chiefs and police not to allow alcoholism to return to Mt Kenya.
“We don't want to see our youth in trenches again because of alcoholism,” he added.
Gachahua maintained that the war against alcoholism should continue even with his absence.
“You may push Gachagua around but let the work that he did for two years remain. Leaders come and go,” he stated.
A court has blocked President William Ruto’s nominee for new deputy president a day after lawmakers voted to remove Gachagua from office over accusations of gross misconduct and undermining the president.
The Senate upheld the impeachment of Gachagua by the National Assembly and voted to remove him from office.
The outcome of the vote was the first time in the history of Kenya that the holder of the Office of the Deputy President has ceased to hold office through a trial borne out of impeachment proceedings.
The 67 lawmakers of the Senate found the DP guilty on five grounds but absolved him on six charges.
Gachagua’s has poked holes into the public participation exercise that preceded the impeachment motion at the National Assembly as insufficient, inadequate and unjust.
