Gachagua: Wetang’ula is the worst speaker since 1963
By Arnold Ngure, August 27, 2025Democracy for the Citizens Party (DCP) leader Rigathi Gachagua has stated that National Assembly Speaker Moses Wetang’ula is the worst there has been since 1963.
Speaking during an interview from his Karen home on Tuesday, August 26, 2025, Gachagua indicated that Wetang’ula had refused to rise above partisan politics and that he was denying MPs opposed to Ruto an opportunity to speak on the floor of the house.
Justin Muturi was nominated by TNA in 2013 to become the Speaker of the National Assembly and by Jubilee Party in 2017, but that man had an impeccable record; you never saw him in a public rally doing empowerment and singing praise and worship to former President Uhuru Kenyatta.
Muturi’s tenure
“Muturi regulated debate and allowed everybody to speak. I am sorry that Speaker Wetang’ula has become a youth winger for President Ruto; he attends empowerment meetings and goes to sing praises to Ruto in public meetings,” Gachagua said.
“He is very selective and has really eroded the dignity of the National Assembly. From 1963, we are at our lowest in terms of the speaker. I have seen him in public rallies singing praise and worship to Ruto and doing harambees for the women and the youth,” Gachagua stated.
Gachagua further stated that the two houses of Parliament had been reduced to appendages of the executive and that they had eroded the dignity of the houses.
Rise above partisan politics
“Once you assume the position of the Speaker of the National Assembly or the Senate, you now rise above partisan politics, become the arbiter of the house, regulate it and dignify it,” Gachagua remarked.
He took issue with the presence of Wetang’ula in public rallies and empowerment drives, stating that such moves amounted to singing praises of the executive.
“I have seen Wetang’ula allowing me to be discussed in Parliament without somebody moving a substantive motion. In that Parliament, Wetang’ula does not allow members who don’t support William Ruto to speak,” he said.
“The two speakers have refused to rise above partisan politics and play their role as speakers of those institutions.”