Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua estimated that Odinga's first day of protests on 20 March cost the economy Ksh2 billion (US$20 million – Dispatches 21/3/23 Raila takes to the streets)...
Dorcas Gachagua wife of Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua herself a pastor was one of the high-profile attendees of a prayer rally hosted by Odero last December at the Moi International Kasarani Stadium in Nairobi...
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On 20 March Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua warned that the Inspector-General of Police has been given a clear mandate to protect lives and properties while Ruto gave a public address stating that 'allowing ourselves to operate outside the law is condoning impunity'...
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But if anyone feels the need they can fold and join ' said Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua said on 12 March...
And while the Director of Public Prosecutions has been quick to resurrect cases that had lain dormant under the previous administration his alacrity to drop corruption charges against Ruto loyalists – including Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua – on the grounds that they were politically motivated has not gone unnoticed (Dispatches 19/10/22 Freedom for Ruto allies as prosecutors drop corruption cases)...
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The society has also asked the Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua to retract his statement that police will no longer execute eviction orders without clearance from the sub-county administration committee...
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Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua has a clearly defined portfolio quite different from Ruto's position in President Uhuru Kenyatta's second term when he had no specified role and was effectively sidelined from government...
Vol 63 No 20 |
- ECONOMY
- AFRICA
Tensions between new Vice-President Rigathi Gachagua and central bank governor Patrick Njoroge could complicate matters...
On 5 September Ruto's deputy Rigathi Gachagua indirectly lambasted Kenyatta's economic management asserting that Ruto would return the country to the Kibaki era of governance regarded by many as an era of effective if corruption-addled government...
That stretches public credulity given that Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua and others have been repeatedly and credibly linked to graft scandals quite apart from Ruto's own vast and unexplained wealth all acquired during a 30-year political career...