Gachagua insisted in his interview with Gikuyu station that he would not step down from his position because he was elected with the president, even if he linked the impeachment rumors to a danger to the lives of his officers and staff.....CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE>>>
He said that government agents from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI), the National Intelligence Service (NIS), and a presidential advisor had intimidated his allies by executing plans to incite fear in them.
“When 13 officers who worked at NIS were replaced procedurally, I took one of them to my office but in efforts to instill fear in me, they sent an assassin who trailed the officer with a motorbike as he was leaving his home in Kileleshwa and shot him in the shoulder they had missed his head.
He visited a Nairobi Hospital for one week where the bullet was removed,” Gachagua told the vernacular stations on Sunday night.
He bemoaned that, despite reporting the case, the supposed assassins had yet to be brought to justice. Gachagua said that the DCI intimidated two of his allies, MPs Benjamin Gathiru (Embakasi Central) and James Gakuya (Embakasi North), because of their relationship with him. He claimed Ruto’s aide was also contacting every leader, urging that they cut ties with him.
“Benjamin Gathiru was trailed on Sunday by over 15 officers from DCI who snatched his phone, while Gakuya was arrested and his phone too grabbed by the officers. All those who call me have had their phones tapped by the NIS and DCI in an attempt to scare me and to isolate people from me,” decried Gachagua.
Gachagua also claimed that the interrogation of his workers at the Karen residence by the sleuths in relation to the protests was the lowest point the Kenya Kwanza administration had reached.
He pointed out that Ruto’s office was never disrespected to that extent, not even in the previous government when Ruto was undercut.
“They were asked whether they bought water to give the Gen Z protestors and whether they talk to me and why” Gachagua said, adding “This is a wider scheme to fight me in the government.
These things were there in the last regime where there was weaponisation of State agencies and I would like to caution the DCI not to take us back. Abduction and extra judicial killings were never part of our vision during our campaigns,” Gachagua said.
While reacting to the new found dalliance between the president and Raila that birthed the broad-based government, Gachagua announced he would borrow a leaf from the move and pursue the broad-based relationship with friends from other communities…CONTINUE READING>>
