The Democracy for the Citizens Party (DCP) leader, Rigathi Gachagua, has cited economic and social injustices against Kenyans by the state as one of the highlights of the year 2025.

In his 2026 New Year’s message via X on Wednesday, December 31, 2025, the former Deputy President said every Kenyan today deserves to be happy and joyous under the framework and dreams of the forefathers. He added what Kenyans have been treated to in the last three years, and in particular 2025, was a lost cause in a nation of hardworking and resilient people.

Highlights of 2025

”The year was unstable, disturbing, and painful, but Kenyans remained strong. We shall not forget the economic nose-dive, malicious lies, religious abuses, deaths of our young people, especially the GenZs, stealing and attempted thievery of Kakamega Gold to Turkana Oil illegal siphons, sale of and attempted grabbing,” Gachagua wrote.

”Looting of our national strategic assets like Safaricom PLC stake, Bomas of Kenya, Masai Mara, Kenya Pipeline, among others, breach and mutilation of our constitution, opening up our borders to criminals and a total break of Kenya through recklessness and poor policy,” he added.

The DCP chief also added that Kenyans shall not forget reckless borrowing and bad fiscal policies, the grabbing of community and public land across the country, the failed education system, the dysfunctional Social Health Authority (SHA), starving patients at Kenyatta National Hospital, and the abuse and misuse of the criminal justice system to settle political scores.

”Abductions and extrajudicial Killings, the Kenya vote for SOGI at the United Nations, the trashed Kenya Vision 2030, the mutilated Africa Agenda 2063, the lost cause of the independent Kenya promise, the tear gassing of women and children in churches and the use of goons backed up by police,” Gachagua said.

State brutality

”We shall vividly remember police brutality and political assassinations as well as muzzling of the press freedom, brutal laws passed, fake investment promises, fruitless and expensive international travels, the suffering women and children in Darfur war zones courtesy of our guns and illegal gold trade, international money laundering schemes and many lives lost on our roads courtesy of bad roads,” the DCP leader added.

Rigathi Gachagua also said that while Kenyans would want to forget political conmanship and sectarianism meted out to Kenyans by their regime, the country shall not forget planned and budgeted corruption, punitive tax regimes, collapse of businesses, high cost of living, agricultural pain to coffee, tea, rice, milk and all farmers.

”We are forever pained by billions of shillings in pending bills, SHA pain on teachers and our police service and payslip pain from forced illegal deductions on our workers to a lost cause of a useless project, the housing menace is. Our middle class was crashed and weakened,” he added.

Poverty line

According to the former DP, an estimated 2 million more Kenyans risk being pushed below the poverty line in the year under review due to bad fiscal policies and economic conditions in 2025, while the poverty index continues to grow exponentially to high levels of upto 46 per cent from 38 per cent in 2022. Our Country continues to sink low with the 15th highest extreme poverty rate in the world at 46 per cent.

”It is shocking that the power speaks large false narratives of the 1st World while 55 per cent of Kenyan Children are multidimensionally poor, experiencing deprivation in at least three dimensions of their well-being; in fact, 9 out of every 10 children in Mandera, Turkana, Samburu, Wajir and Tana River face deprivation in three or more dimensions of their well-being,” Gachagua said.

Rigathi Gachagua also shared the pain of parents on what he termed the destroyed free education system left behind by the late President Mwai Kibaki. He added that despite the pains, Kenyans shall reclaim their land and make Kenya a better nation.