Gachagua Discloses A Plot To Impeach Him And Replace Him With A ‘Puppet’

By: Joseph Mutua Ndonga  

Worth Noting:

• The traders at Wakulima market would hear none of this. We have been operating in this market for many years. Is there an attempt to grab this land? Where are our leaders? This is the time they should stand with us?
• A few days later, Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua waded into this matter. He first wrote a tweet on his X handle faulting Governor Sakaja’s move. He told him the decision to relocate the traders was ill-advised because he had not consulted them.
• For this reason, I urge you to rescind it. First call these traders and listen to their grievances. Based on their views, you should then build a consensus on how to move forward.

The war of words pitting Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua and Nairobi Governor Johnson Sakaja has once again erupted.

This comes just a few days after the Nairobi County Government issued a notice to relocate the Wakulima (Marigiti) traders to a newly built market located along Kangundo road.

The traders immediately took with issue with the notice and vowed that they will not leave.

We know Governor Sakaja is behind this move. He does not mean well for us alleging this was because we hails from a certain region of Kenya.

The Governor want us to close our businesses because that market is far away from City Centre where our customers are based.

Some of the traders argued that all the stalls in the new market had already been occupied.

But a section of traders along Kangundo road immediately contradicted them. There is enough space and we are ready to welcome Marigiti traders.

We are small scale traders and they are wholesalers.

So, we do not anticipate any business rivalry.

The traders at Wakulima market would hear none of this. We have been operating in this market for many years. Is there an attempt to grab this land? Where are our leaders? This is the time they should stand with us?

A few days later, Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua waded into this matter. He first wrote a tweet on his X handle faulting Governor Sakaja’s move. He told him the decision to relocate the traders was ill-advised because he had not consulted them.

For this reason, I urge you to rescind it. First call these traders and listen to their grievances. Based on their views, you should then build a consensus on how to move forward.

In his swift reaction via a tweet on his X, Sakaja told the DP.

I respect you as an elder. You have my number.

Initially Gachagua was reluctant to publicly express solidarity with the traders.

He has now openly come out and this comes at a time when reports indicated a section of MPs have renewed threat to impeach him.

Speaking when he toured Marigiti and other markets in the capital city including Nyamakima and Gikomba, the DP disclosed that he was privy to this ill-advised plot

He said the ultimate goal of his political enemies was to replace him with a ‘puppet’.

The leaders accompanying him had set the ball rolling. Gachagua is being fought because he is a truthful man and had refused to bend too low to a level of a sycophant.

The coup plotters will not succeed. The motion of impeachment will be dead on arrival because majority of MPs stand with Gachagua.

But a friend of mine in the estate told me. These leaders should not take this matter lightly.

Gachagua is a truthful man. So, they should not fear telling him the truth.

As of now, he does not have enough foot soldiers in parliament to defeat a motion of impeachment.

This is unlike President William Ruto, who faced similar tribulations, when he served as Deputy President during the reign of President Uhuru Kenyatta.

My friend however told me that the grounds cited by the coup plotters did not meet the requisite legal threshold of impeaching a sitting DP.

So, chances of the Speaker of National Assembly declining to approve their motion were very higher. If this happen, they would end up being embarrassed and humiliated.

Joseph Mutua Ndonga Is A Writer And Social Media Based In Nairobi