Rigathi Gachagua: this is why my life is in danger

Impeached Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua says there have been two attempts to poison him through food that he was to take in recent months.

Speaking on Sunday after being discharged from at a hospital in Nairobi where he has been admitted since falling ill on Thursday last week, Gachagua says the first attempt was in August this year when he was in Kisumu with the second attempt happening the following month when he attended a Kikuyu Council of Elders event in Nyeri.

“I want to tell the people of Kenya that I don’t feel safe. Let me say that on August 30 [2024], in Kisumu, undercover security entered my room in Kisumu and bugged it and one of them tried to poison my food, but we detected it… and on third of September [2024] in Nyeri, another team came and tried to poison some food meant for me and the Kikuyu Council of Elders,” he said.

Gachagua says he reported the matter to the National Intelligence Service.

“After these [failed] attempts, it is when this impeachment motion was hatched,” he said.

Rigathi Gachagua addresses the media after being discharged from a hospital in Nairobi.

Gachagua pointed an accusing finger at President William Ruto.

“President William Ruto, my brother, I helped you to be president. Leave me alone. Leave my children alone. Do whatever you want, but let me live. Let me look after my children. You can do whatever you want with the country. Let us be. You have caused me enough pain for the last one year. Please leave me alone. Please allow me to have my peace, if nothing else,” he said.

He said security detail attached to him, his homes in Nyeri and Karen (Nairobi) have been withdrawn.

“It is unfortunate that when I was here in the hospital, my brother and friend President William Ruto ordered the withdrawal of my security. I didn’t know President Ruto could be this vicious,” Gachagua said.

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