'Your privacy has been defiled as I fight my battles,' Gachagua apologizes to family

 

Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua 

A remorseful Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua has pleaded with his family to pardon him for the unwarranted public attention they have experienced due to his political afflictions.

Speaking during a church service on Sunday in Nairobi, Gachagua said that his wife Dorcas Rigathi and their two sons have been dragged into the axis of his political throes, denying them privacy, as he faces a proposal to remove him from office.

"I want to apologise as a politician that your names are everywhere for no reason. Your privacy has been defiled as I fight my political battles. But there is nothing you can do because you got married to a politician," he said.

While noting that watching his family being thrown in the public eye was a bitter pill to swallow, DP Gachagua further claimed that his political nemesis have gone after his late brother's properties and even exposed details inked in his will.

He pleaded with his critics to desist from dragging his family into his leadership wrangles and instead face him.

"I'm very pained that my late brother, a man who worked very hard for his family who died 8 years ago, his will that he made in privacy is in every newspaper," said the bitter DP.

"His properties that he worked so hard to leave for his family are everywhere in the newspaper. I wish that those who pursue me could pursue me and allow my late brother to rest in peace."

The Second in Command therefore pleaded with Kenyans and President William Ruto to pardon him and his family for any wrongs he might have committed while in office.

"In our zeal and commitment to work probably we have wronged somebody. I want to say to my bother President Ruto if I have wronged you please find it in your heart to forgive me," said Gachagua.

"If my spouse in her duties for the boychild and her programme has wronged you in any way find it in your heart to forgive her."

Meanwhile, DP Gachagua has assembled a battery of 20 advocates including senior counsels to defend him both in parliament and at the courts beginning next week when the House will consider his impeachment motion.

Gachagua will be defending himself against 10 charges including gross misconduct, violation of the Constitution, undermining the presidency, corruption among others. 

A contentious nationwide public participation was held on Friday to debate on the matter as Kenyans also called for President Ruto's vacation from office.

Most Kenyans faulted the government for prioritising the removal of a Deputy President yet it hs failed to address the matters ailing citizens among them the crippled economy and the failed education and health policies.

The National Assembly has until Tuesday to decide on the impeachment motion before the Senate takes up the matter.

By Moses Kinyanjui