MP Ruku criticizes Gachagua over assaults on leaders throughout funerals

MP Ruku criticizes Gachagua over assaults on leaders throughout funerals

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Mbeere North Member of Parliament (MP) Geoffrey Ruku has criticised former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua over his sustained assaults on leaders throughout funerals.

In an tackle, the MP famous that it’s pretentious for the previous DP to assault leaders when households are grieving their family members solely.

He defined that Gachagua was solely pretending to care now that he was faraway from workplace to hunt relevance.

Continuing his spiel, MP Ruku described the behaviour as an absence of manners and urged leaders to chorus from politicking throughout intimate moments akin to funerals.

“Wananachi wanataka kazi iendelee, wanataka kuona kazi ikifanywa na maendeleo, tukitengeza mashule zetu in the required standards. When the son of our leader Jusin Muturi had gone missing, I stepped out na nikaongea hio maneno and others were quiet including Gachagua, he was completely quiet and he was the deputy president. When Muguka ilikua inapigwa huyu Gachagua ju kwao hakuna Muguka he was completely quiet,” he mentioned.

“Hatutaki ati wakati watu wetu wanaumia kwa roho ju mtoto wao amekufa, when our brothers and sisters are mourning we are there as leaders stepping on their coffin, shouting at the highest point, that is lack of manners.”

Gachagua’s remarks

MP Ruku’s remarks come amid heightened criticism from the political divide over Gachagua’s stance on abductions.

Speaking in the course of the burial of Eric Mutugi Kivuti, the son of former Senator Lenny Kivuti held in Kanyuambora, Mbeere North Sub County on Friday, January 3, 2025, Gachagua slammed National Assembly Majority Leader Kimani Ichung’wah for accusing him of being the mastermind behind the surge of abductions within the nation.

“Even now, about the abductions, the President said there were none; he repeated it almost five times. Isn’t that so? Recently, he admitted they exist. Now I’ve seen his puppet, the messenger he uses, lying to Kenyans, saying these abductions are orchestrated by Rigathi Gachagua. Isn’t that nonsense?” the DP posed.

” Isn’t that nonsense? Can you respect the folks of Kenya? The folks of Kenya are very clever, and you’re operating out of lies.”

Gachagua’s outburst adopted Ichung’wah’s claims that he was orchestrating the abductions to taint President William Ruto’s picture.