Gachagua to Ruto: 'Call your house to order...tell your people to stop abusing me!'

Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua is now urging his boss President William Ruto to crack the whip and bring order to the ruling United Democratic Alliance (UDA) party and the Kenya Kwanza outfit at large, amid reports of incessant political in-fighting.

The DP, who spoke exclusively to Citizen TV on September 20, 2024, intimated that it is only the President – as the leader of both government and the ruling party – who can bring down the presently rising political temperatures in the country.

Gachagua now wants Ruto to call for a Parliamentary Group (PG) meeting to, among other things, direct Members of Parliament allied to him to cease the political insults directed towards him as the country’s second-in-command.

“It’s upto our boss (President Ruto) to decide what should be done because he is our party leader. He can call a PG and bring down the political temperatures; tell the Members of Parliament to stop attacking each other, ask those who accompany him who abuse the Deputy President to stop…because if he told them to stop, they would stop. Ask them to stop these night meetings…it’s really him to provide leadership, so that the country can go back to work,” he said.

“We have many challenges as a country…[yet] people are just talking about politics; how they’ll impeach so and so. How so and so is useless, others are calling others snakes….there are all sorts of things that are going on. It’s really upon the President of the Republic of Kenya to put his house in order.”

DP Gachagua went on to note that he has previously raised the matter of the President’s men demeaning and ridiculing him directly with the Head of State himself, and hopes that he will take action soon.

He further stated that, however, if they continue hurling insults his way, then his own people will also have no choice but to respond with the same measure of cruelty, which will only serve to return the country to a campaign period just two years after an election.

“My team answers to what is going on, because we are also politicians, and if there is an onslaught against the Deputy President, he too has people who support him. If you abuse him in meetings, the team that supports him will also answer, they cannot just keep quiet. So it’s upon our boss to call his house to order,” said the deputy president.

“I’ve talked to the President several times, and I’ve asked him to call his house to order. And he’s yet to do it, but I trust he’ll do it. Because the environment we’re having in the country is toxic, most Kenyans are angry about what is going on.”