Deputy President William Ruto has continued to send mixed signals to President William Ruto days after his tell-it-all interview where he exposed a scheme to oust him from office through an impeachment motion.

On Sunday, September 22, 2024, DP Gachagua shifted into a higher gear by cautioning his boss against betraying the people from the Kenya region.

The second in command who attended a church Service in Kiambu County, warned Ruto against allowing an impeachment motion to be tabled in the National Assembly indicating that it would have grave ramifications.

While alluding to the 2022 General Election where he argued that Mt Kenya voted against a candidate endorsed by former President Uhuru Kenyatta over what they perceived as betrayal to Ruto, Gachagua indicated that they would do the same thing if an impeachment motion against him sails through.

“Our people hate betrayal and are unforgiving if you betray them. I ask my brother President William Ruto not be tempted to go that direction because these people will be very unforgiving.

“When there was an attempt to betray him, the people of this region said no, we don’t like betrayal… we don’t entertain betrayal and for that reason, the people of this region stood with him to a man to express their displeasure at betrayal,” Gachagua cautioned the president.

“If the the people of this region feel betrayed as they will if go in that direction, these people will be very unforgiving. That is just my advice it doesn’t have to be taken, I have been around for a long time and I know a few things about people from the Mt Kenya region,” he added.

There is still room

However, Gachagua observed that President William Ruto has enough time to salvage his relationship with the Mt Kenya people.

He pleaded with him to call his house to order and allow the administration to deliver its mandate and honour their campaign pledges.

“If you betray these people, your relationship with them will be ruined and cannot be salvaged and I still think there is room for the President to put his house in order. Talk to everybody and let us get back to work and serve the people of Kenya, we gave so many promises and we need to keep those promises,” Gachagua emphasised.

Keep your promise

At the same time, Gachagua challenged his boss to keep his promise where he stated that he would not allow his deputy to be persecuted.

“Very many deputy presidents are fought. It is an unfortunate situation. Given an opportunity, I would not allow my deputy president to be humiliated the way former deputy presidents have been humiliated and the way I have been humiliated,” Ruto said in an interview on in April 2021.

Recalling the pledge, Gachagua insisted that Ruto does not require funding from the World Bank or the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to honour the promise.

Failure to keep it, Gachagua argued that no one would trust him in the political arena going forward.

“The other day I asked the President to keep one promise to Kenyans that require no funding… he promised the people of Kenya that under his watch his deputy would never be humiliated. We are asking him to keep that promise. If can’t keep that promise nobody can trust him to keep any other promise. So it is up to him,” Gachagua told the congregants at a church in Kiambu.

“For me, I am comforted by the fact that when things were very difficult for President William Ruto and he was under a lot of attack, humiliation and harassment, God stood with him. That same God has not gone anywhere, that is my comfort.”