DP Gachagua breaks silence on on bare-knuckle Inauguration Day speech
DP Gachagua breaks silence on on bare-knuckle Inauguration Day speech
Deputy president Rigath
Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua has broken his silence following his controversial inauguration day speech in which he went guns blazing at former President Uhuru Kenyatta’s leadership.
According to Gachagua, who spoke with NTV on Sunday, his speech was motivated by the need to tell Kenyans the truth rather than a personal vendetta against Uhuru.
“Those are facts, why do people want me to run away from facts….”Gachagua said.
“I needed to tell the people of Kenya the kind of country we have inherited, I also needed to tell the people of Kenya that they are finally free,”
According to the former Mathira MP, his controversial speech was an opportunity to tell the nation that the State would not use resources to target anti-government critics.
“I wanted to tell the people of Kenya that they are free to criticise the government without the fear of reprisals… that is the truth, and I will conntinue telling Kenyans the truth,” he added.
DP Gachagua also dismissed claims that his speech at President Ruto’s inauguration left the over 6.9 million people who voted for their opponent feeling disenfranchised.
“I have every regard for [them], and I know they also agree with me because the cost of Unga is up, the fact that they did not vote for me has not made Unga cheaper,” DP Gachagua added.
“The fact that they did not vote for us does not mean they have money in their pockets, the issue we were talking about were not about our supporters, they were about all Kenyans,”
The Ruto-led government, according to Gachagua, will serve all Kenyans regardless of how they voted.
The latest comes against the backdrop of his contentious inauguration speech, in which he launched a salvo of criticism at the then-outgoing president.
“I want to thank the people of Kenya for their resilience and determination for rejecting to be intimidated, coerced and saying that the will of the people is supreme in this republic,” he said.
“Freedom is here with us I want to tell Kenyans that finally you are free and we are finally a democratic country, it became a crime in this country to become a friend of William Ruto it is only that it was not put in the penal code, from today I want to tell Kenyans that you are finally free and from now you don’t have to talk on Whatsapp for fear of not being recorded by state agencies.”
In an attack on ex-president Uhuru Kenyatta, Gachagua said that the new government will work tirelessly to revive the “dilapidated economy” back to how it was during the late President Kibaki’s exit from office.
He went on to add that the government is inheriting a demoralised country, citing the current skyrocketed debt ceiling and the unemployment state of Kenyans.
