Homa Bay Town Member of Parliament Peter Kaluma has said President William Ruto must be liberated from what he calls the blackmail of Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua.
In a statement on his X, Kaluma, referring to what Mathira MP Eric Wamumbi said, noted that the Deputy President was involved in the appointments of at least nine members of Ruto’s cabinet from the Mount Kenya region, contravening the Constitution, which advocates for ethnic balance.
“We must liberate President Ruto from the blackmails of Gachagua. One community can’t have all these seats in a multi-ethnic nation whose Constitution emphasises ethnic and regional balance in public service – wrong, very wrong,” Kaluma said.
Kaluma was reacting to a fallout between Gachagua and Mathira Wamumbi who on Thursday, July 11, 2024, said their differences began on May 25, 2024, after the DP asked him to abandon the government and regroup ahead of the 2027 elections.
Wamumbi revealed that Gachagua was having major differences of opinion with the president and that he attempted to convince him to honour his part of the bargain in the pact with Ruto.
“I was the only person he met that day; we talked for hours, and I tried to tell him that his advisers were misleading him, just as they had misled another president,” Wamumbi said during an interview with Inooro TV.
Gachagua fallout
Gachagua has been at the centre of a potential fallout with a section of Kenya Kwanza elected leaders who have called him out on different forums.
On May 27, 2024, Oscar Sudi, a close ally of Ruto, hit back at Gachagua who had earlier questioned his funds drive in various constituencies in the Rift Valley region.
Gachagua had called on the Kapseret MP to concentrate his activities in his constituency, saying he was causing unnecessary confusion by traversing the region.
“Where are these resources coming from, for politicking, when Kenyans are suffering? Choppers are being hired left, right and centre. Millions of shillings are being dished and Kenyans are suffering,” Gachagua inquired.
However, Sudi hit back at the DP, saying Gachagua was out of order for calling on him to stay in one constituency, while he was going all over the nation with a delegation of MPs from various regions.
“All those who were in Kesses used choppers to make themselves popular when we were in opposition until they clinched power. If you do not want to crisscross the country then stay home. Look for someone else to intimidate, I am past that stage,” Sudi said.
On Sunday, July 7, 2024, Gachagua blamed unnamed people in the Interior Ministry whom he said were frustrating his fight against drugs in Mathira constituency.
Earlier, Gachagua blamed the National Intelligence Service (NIS) boss Noordin Haji, accusing him of incompetence and mismanagement of the spy body.
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