I blame Gachagua for his downfall – Moses Kuria

President William Ruto’s senior economic advisor Moses Kuria now says that he blames former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua for his downfall.

According to Kuria, Gachagua should have been more patient and engaged more instead of running away from the commitments they made together with President Ruto.

He said that even in homes, businesses, and government, things are not always rosy and as such, disagreements exist.

“Just a little patience and engagement. I was only a minister, this guy was a privileged guy, and he was chairing cabinet committees. I am blaming him solely for his own goal. It is not always rosy but we need to be sensitive that it is not only about me,” Kuria said.

The former CS insisted that Gachagua should have waited for at least four or five years to end before publicly disagreeing with the President.

“I feel embarrassed to be associated with a community that says unless it is you who is leading. They should at least wait for three or four years, even the five years allowed within our democracy.

“From my community, he was the senior most member, 10 million people behind him… Rigathi Gachagua has said by the end of this month he is going to have his party, other people are excited, I am not excited,” Kuria said on Citizen TV.

Kuria further noted that Gachagua is still his friend and he never supported his impeachment despite their differences.

He insisted that he treated him with respect and never made their differences public but it got to a point where he was left with no choice but to support his removal from office.

“Gachagua is my friend, by the time he came to Parliament I was already a parliamentarian. We campaigned together. We served together, he was my boss in Cabinet. 

“I treated him with absolute respect as my boss. Unfortunately, the former DP did not do himself a lot of favours and for me, the time came even though I said I would not support that impeachment when I was left with zero option,” he added.